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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Stand Your Skin".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Davy Boran's attitude about his daughters?
(a) He just wants them to get married and move out.
(b) He barely notices them, because he is consumed with work.
(c) He hopes that they will take over his business some day.
(d) He is proud of their accomplishments.

2. The description of Tain's knees as "blunt, knobby, and flushed scaldingly red" reinforces what about Tain (65)?
(a) Her lack of social skills.
(b) Her youth.
(c) Her plainness.
(d) Her idealism.

3. 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)?
(a) Senior.
(b) Regular.
(c) Respectable.
(d) Pissheads.

4. What does the Irish slang expression "shift" mean?
(a) Use illicit drugs.
(b) Kiss; make out.
(c) Meet new people.
(d) Drink alcohol.

5. What does Tain compliment Bat on?
(a) His hair.
(b) His ears.
(c) His eyelashes.
(d) His veins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tug do to Mark's car?

2. What is the likely purpose of the repetition in the page 3 sentence "He is in a good mood, a good, good, good but edgy, edgy, edgy mood"?

3. When Teddy says, "I had a horn now," what is he saying is happening (33)?

4. When Bat compares himself to "a thickset golem hewn from the scrabbled, sodden dirt of Connaught," what literary technique is employed?

5. What causes Bat's mother to tell him "You look constantly as if in want" (52)?

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