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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bat sees the beautiful woman with Heg, how does he feel?
(a) Confused about who she reminds him of.
(b) Self-conscious about his looks.
(c) Envious of Heg.
(d) Irritated that Heg has brought her.

2. What is the likely rhetorical purpose of the midges and the fly mentioned in the story?
(a) To point out that the characters are partially responsible for their own troubles.
(b) To show that even nature is conspiring against the characters.
(c) To illustrate the kind of squalor and desperation the characters live with.
(d) To demonstrate the constant small miseries of the characters' lives.

3. What does Bat find in the gas station's bathroom sink?
(a) A wad of toilet paper.
(b) An empty beer can.
(c) A daddy long legs.
(d) A broken tube of lipstick.

4. What does Tug do to Mark's car?
(a) Kicks in the windshield.
(b) Flips it over.
(c) Runs a key down the paint on the doors.
(d) Smashes the headlights.

5. What causes Bat's mother to tell him "You look constantly as if in want" (52)?
(a) His shaking hands.
(b) His drooping lip.
(c) His skinny frame.
(d) His wide eyes.

6. What technique is used in the sentence, "Slender reeds brush against one another as cleanly as freshly whetted blades" (13)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

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

8. Bat suffers from tinnitus. What does this cause?
(a) Nausea and vomiting.
(b) Blood pressure spikes.
(c) Ringing in his ears.
(d) Dizziness and fainting.

9. What is the likely purpose of the repetition in the page 3 sentence "He is in a good mood, a good, good, good but edgy, edgy, edgy mood"?
(a) It reinforces the narrator's claim that people are afraid of Tug.
(b) It communicates how heightened Tug's emotions are.
(c) It foreshadows Tug's obsession with the Clancy boy.
(d) It creates an ironic tone that characterizes Jimmy more than Tug.

10. What rule is strictly enforced at the Peacock?
(a) Those under 21 cannot enter.
(b) People who are drunk cannot enter.
(c) No outside alcohol is allowed.
(d) The bar closes exactly at 1:30 a.m.

11. What technique is evident in the phrase "the squeaking of the wheels and the clanking of the chain" (47)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Situational irony.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Paradox.

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

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

14. What does the Irish slang expression "shift" mean?
(a) Drink alcohol.
(b) Meet new people.
(c) Kiss; make out.
(d) Use illicit drugs.

15. What does Tug offer the boy as a toll for using "his" bridge?
(a) Half of a chocolate bar.
(b) Takeout french fries.
(c) An old farthing coin.
(d) Potato chips.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Val not very surprised that one of the four underage girls who tries to enter the club knows him by name?

2. When Teddy says, "I had a horn now," what is he saying is happening (33)?

3. What is Tansey doing when Teddy says that he "gouged the baize" (31)?

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

5. In the context of Young Skins, what does the word "estate" mean?

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