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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: "Diamonds".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the "Diamonds" narrator describe as "sick-of-their-own-shit degenerates" (171)?
(a) His friends in the city.
(b) His fellow staff members.
(c) His AA group.
(d) His students.

2. What technique is used in the sentence, "Slender reeds brush against one another as cleanly as freshly whetted blades" (13)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Simile.

3. What thought does the "Diamonds" narrator say he had after his cat died?
(a) That he should kill himself.
(b) That he needed to start going to AA meetings.
(c) That he should get some therapy.
(d) That he should never have another pet.

4. What does Paudi do with the stone that Arm sets on the table?
(a) Tells Arm to get it out of his house.
(b) Tosses it into the fireplace.
(c) Puts it in his pocket.
(d) Throws it at Arm's face.

5. Who is the person that Bat refers to as "the old dear"?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the page 38 expression "the lights were going up in just over an hour" mean?

2. What is the name of the eldest member of the "Diamonds" narrator's AA group?

3. What does Arm sit watching while he waits for Dympna?

4. After Paudi shows Dympna the injured dog, what question does he ask Dympna?

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

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