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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 does the Irish expression "couldn't be arsed" mean (45)?
(a) Incapable of embarrassment.
(b) Unwilling to bother with something.
(c) Not at all amused.
(d) Calm, unflappable.

2. What does Val wonder if Martina knows about Joan Doody?
(a) Joan has a reputation for being dangerous.
(b) Joan has a crush on Davy Boran.
(c) Joan is leaving soon for college in Dublin.
(d) Joan and Val have slept together.

3. Jimmy says that Tug has a "lugubrious air" (3). What is another way to describe this quality?
(a) Exaggeratedly sad.
(b) Quietly desperate.
(c) Theatrically joyous.
(d) Aggressively cheerful.

4. What technique is used when, on page 23, Teddy describes Sarah's father as a "hair-covered pudding"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Simile.

5. How old is Martina when the story opens?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bat is eating dinner after work, why are the two little Minion boys in the kitchen?

2. What does Bat's mother accuse him of constantly doing?

3. When the two men get out of their car opposite to where Val, Joan, and Martina are sitting, what are they dressed to do?

4. When Teddy says that he and his friends were "flummoxed," what is he saying about them (21)?

5. Where is the Peacock located?

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