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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. What technique is used when Paudi says that he will "have to take [the dog] for a walk up the heather" (135)?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Personification.
(d) Allegory.

2. 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) While he was walking to the tavern, a passing car splashed mud on them.
(c) He fell crossing the street to the tavern.
(d) He spilled a coffee on them while he was driving to the church.

3. Jimmy calls Marlene's mother "pragmatic" (4) How does she demonstrate this quality?
(a) By drinking cold tea herself but offering Jimmy and Marlene hot tea.
(b) By not caring when Marlene brings Jimmy home at three a.m.
(c) By reading the television listings at three a.m.
(d) By watching David for Marlene while Marlene goes out with friends.

4. How old is Jimmy?
(a) 23.
(b) 22.
(c) 25.
(d) 24.

5. When Doran left the band, where did he go?
(a) Helsinki.
(b) Galway.
(c) London.
(d) Home to his mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does an examination of his own hands reveal to the "Diamonds" narrator?

3. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?

4. What piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?

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

(see the answer key)

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