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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 technique is being used in the sentence, "He had gaping thyroidal eyes, the broad skull and delicately tissued temples of a monk" (29)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Irony.
(d) Allusion.

2. What technique is used in Teddy's description of a pool ball spinning "confusedly on its own axis" (31)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Euphemism.

3. Bat suffers from tinnitus. What does this cause?
(a) Dizziness and fainting.
(b) Blood pressure spikes.
(c) Ringing in his ears.
(d) Nausea and vomiting.

4. What does Martina tell Val about Galway?
(a) She hates not being able to see the stars because of the city lights.
(b) She wishes that she had gone to Dublin instead.
(c) The people there know ten times as much about the world as Val does.
(d) It seems as far away as the moon to people like him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule is strictly enforced at the Peacock?

2. What does Tug offer the boy as a toll for using "his" bridge?

3. When Tansey tells Sarah that she is a "diamond pulled from a coal bucket," what is he implying about her family?

4. What draws Jimmy's attention to Marlene's engagement ring?

5. What is ironic about the text message that Val sends to Martina at the end of the story?

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