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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?
(a) It creates dramatic irony because the characters do not know what the reader knows.
(b) It establishes the tone of whimsy that continues with the child pretending to be a king.
(c) It portrays the government as a force of oppression.
(d) It demonstrates that the government is not much help in the characters' lives.

2. What technique is used when, on page 23, Teddy describes Sarah's father as a "hair-covered pudding"?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metonymy.

3. Who is the "drummer" that Joan mentions in her conversation with Martina?
(a) A man whose band plays at the Peacock.
(b) Martina's boyfriend.
(c) Joan's brother.
(d) Val.

4. Where do Jenny and Sarah lead Teddy when they leave the pub?
(a) To Glanbeigh Cemetery.
(b) To Bleak Woods.
(c) To Grove Park.
(d) To Farrow Hill.

5. In the opening of "The Moon," Boris and Val drink Lucozade. What kind of beverage is this?
(a) Iced coffee.
(b) A cocktail.
(c) An energy drink.
(d) Beer.

6. The description of Tain's knees as "blunt, knobby, and flushed scaldingly red" reinforces what about Tain (65)?
(a) Her lack of social skills.
(b) Her idealism.
(c) Her youth.
(d) Her plainness.

7. What is Martina's attitude toward the young customers trading phone numbers and kissing one another goodbye in the parking lot?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Envy.
(d) Pleasure.

8. Which American actor does Jimmy claim that Tug models his "look" after?
(a) Burt Reynolds.
(b) Marlon Brando.
(c) Jack Nicholson.
(d) James Gandolfini.

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

10. Jimmy says that Tug has a "lugubrious air" (3). What is another way to describe this quality?
(a) Theatrically joyous.
(b) Quietly desperate.
(c) Exaggeratedly sad.
(d) Aggressively cheerful.

11. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?
(a) The college students are their hope for the future.
(b) The college students are not smarter, just luckier.
(c) The college students are condescending and rude.
(d) The college students are abandoning those left at home.

12. When Jimmy snaps at Tug about his speculation about Wayne Clancy, how does Tug react?
(a) He keeps talking about it.
(b) He seems angry.
(c) He seems hurt.
(d) He laughs.

13. What does Bat's mother accuse him of constantly doing?
(a) Laughing inappropriately.
(b) Muttering.
(c) Being too loud.
(d) Stammering.

14. What is Tansey doing when Teddy says that he "gouged the baize" (31)?
(a) Using his cue to tap the wooden edge of the table.
(b) Sinking the shot that wins the game.
(c) Ripping the surface of the pool table.
(d) Executing a trick shot.

15. What technique is used in Teddy's description of a pool ball spinning "confusedly on its own axis" (31)?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Teddy describes Sarah as "daffy" (20). What does this word mean in this context?

2. What physical feature of his own does Jimmy find unattractive?

3. When the two men get out of their car opposite to where Val, Joan, and Martina are sitting, what are they dressed to do?

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

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

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