1. Why is Teddy unable to speak at the end of "Bait" (35)?
(a) He is paralyzed with fear.
(b) One of the women is standing on his throat.
(c) His mouth is full of dirt and leaves.
(d) He is lapsing into unconsciousness.

2. When Martina describes "Father Time" as "about two hundred years old" and having a "mountainous shaggy white beard," what technique is being used (47)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Synechdoche.

3. What do Tain, Heg, and Bat do on their break?
(a) Drink beer.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Scroll through their phones.
(d) Smoke a joint.

4. How old is Jimmy?
(a) 23.
(b) 24.
(c) 25.
(d) 22.

5. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?
(a) A photo of Jack.
(b) Some first aid supplies.
(c) The horse.
(d) Rebecca's jacket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?

2. What does Val wonder if Martina knows about Joan Doody?

3. Dympna's comments about being able to change the uncles' minds on the day after Arm kills Flannigan are an example of what technique?

4. To what animal does Martina compare the drummer?

5. What technique is employed in the phrase "the bright white furnace of cold" (175)?

(see the answer key)

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