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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Martina expected to study in college, and what does she actually study?
(a) Hospitality; history.
(b) Child development; law.
(c) Medicine; art.
(d) Engineering; literature.

2. What is the narrator describing on page 1 when he talks about "tenderized brain cases and seesawing stomachs"?
(a) Sea sickness.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Migraine headaches.
(d) Hangovers.

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

4. Teddy describes Sarah as "daffy" (20). What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Tall.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Crazy.

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

6. To what does Jimmy compare all of Tug's ideas about what might have happened to Wayne Clancy?
(a) Black flowers.
(b) Buses pulling in and out of a station.
(c) Poisoned chocolates.
(d) Empty pint glasses.

7. Where do Val, Joan, and Martina meet after work?
(a) By the Mule River.
(b) At Joan Doody's mother's house.
(c) In a parking lot by Bleak Woods.
(d) In the basement of the Peacock.

8. What technique is being used in the sentence, "He had gaping thyroidal eyes, the broad skull and delicately tissued temples of a monk" (29)?
(a) Irony.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Imagery.

9. What has happened to Nubbin Tansey since the incident at Munroe's?
(a) He has committed suicide.
(b) He has married and started a family.
(c) He has emigrated to America.
(d) He has been in prison.

10. Who is the person that Bat refers to as "the old dear"?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandfather.

11. How many years apart are Martina and Val?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

12. What is Davy Boran's attitude about his daughters?
(a) He is proud of their accomplishments.
(b) He just wants them to get married and move out.
(c) He barely notices them, because he is consumed with work.
(d) He hopes that they will take over his business some day.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matteen do for a living?

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

3. What causes Bat's mother to tell him "You look constantly as if in want" (52)?

4. What does "Father Time" always have with him?

5. What does the Irish expression "couldn't be arsed" mean (45)?

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