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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8: "Kindly Forget My Existence".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Respectable.
(b) Regular.
(c) Pissheads.
(d) Senior.

2. When Bat compares himself to "a thickset golem hewn from the scrabbled, sodden dirt of Connaught," what literary technique is employed?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Paradox.

3. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?
(a) Some first aid supplies.
(b) The horse.
(c) Rebecca's jacket.
(d) A photo of Jack.

4. Which is the best description of the "Diamonds" narrator's attitude toward teaching his gym classes?
(a) He uses it as a way to recapture some of his lost high-school athletic glory.
(b) He barely registers being there because he is so distracted by his urge to drink.
(c) He is laid-back and even a little lazy, but generally enjoys the job.
(d) He is meticulous and demanding, but questions whether the job is meaningful.

5. In his description of his train ride home in the opening of "Diamonds," what tone does the narrator adopt in his description of the landscape?
(a) Contemptuous.
(b) Admiring.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Nostalgic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Bat's dream, what does the "mustard-seed" suit allude to?

2. What does Arm reveal to the widow?

3. Jamie Duffy's nickname, "Scaldyballs," is an example of which literary device?

4. What offends Paudi about his brother's personal grooming?

5. In "Bait," Teddy describes Matteen as feeling "dolour" (19). What does this mean Matteen is feeling?

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