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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On their visit to Fannigan's house, what does Arm decide Fannigan's outfit is meant to do?
(a) Emphasize his frailty.
(b) Impress women.
(c) Intimidate Arm.
(d) Demonstrate his poverty.

2. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?
(a) Luke brings up the incident at Munroe's.
(b) Tain tells him that she has slept with Heg.
(c) He has had far too much to drink.
(d) He sees Luke kiss Tain.

3. 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"?
(a) It foreshadows Tug's obsession with the Clancy boy.
(b) It communicates how heightened Tug's emotions are.
(c) It creates an ironic tone that characterizes Jimmy more than Tug.
(d) It reinforces the narrator's claim that people are afraid of Tug.

4. Why does Siobhán dismiss the rule of anonymity at the meeting?
(a) She does not agree that substance abuse is a shameful secret.
(b) The narrator is already too well-known to everyone there.
(c) The town is too small for it to be practical.
(d) She does not think that most rules apply to her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which American actor does Jimmy claim that Tug models his "look" after?

2. On the day the story opens, what does Bat do after dinner but before he starts drinking?

3. How many years apart are Martina and Val?

4. What does Arm take from Fannigan's house?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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