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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. How did the knees of Eli's suit get stained?
(a) He knelt in the mud when he was peering through a window at the funeral.
(b) He spilled a coffee on them while he was driving to the church.
(c) While he was walking to the tavern, a passing car splashed mud on them.
(d) He fell crossing the street to the tavern.

2. What is in the satchel that Dympna brings to the uncles' farm?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Money.
(c) Prescription drugs.
(d) Marijuana.

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

4. Why does Heg invite Bat to drinks at The Yellow Belly?
(a) Heg is heading back to college.
(b) It is Heg's birthday.
(c) Heg thinks that Bat might want to meet the barmaid.
(d) Heg knows that Bat will buy him drinks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doran do when Eli wants a drink but the barman is still in the cellar?

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

3. What technique is used in the sentence "Limply piled and dripping, it resembled the lustreless corpse of a drowned animal" (190)?

4. What does Jimmy use to write "Marry Me" on Mark's car?

5. Where did Martina stay in Holland?

(see the answer key)

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