2. What is ironic about the text message that Val sends to Martina at the end of the story?
(a) The reader is aware that Joan is the one who has feelings for Val.
(b) Martina has accidentally left her phone behind at the Peacock.
(c) Martina has only pretended to go early to Galway in order to get out of seeing Val again.
(d) She has already complained to him about a boyfriend being too clingy.

3. Why is Val not very surprised that one of the four underage girls who tries to enter the club knows him by name?
(a) She went to school with his brothers.
(b) She is his cousin, Mary Devaney.
(c) He used to date her older sister.
(d) He is well-known in their small town.

4. Why are there rumors about Sarah's parentage circulating around town?
(a) She has an unusual way of speaking that sounds foreign.
(b) Everyone knows that the Dignans were not able to have their own children.
(c) Her mother has had several affairs.
(d) She does not look or act like her family.

5. To what animal does Martina compare the drummer?
(a) An ape.
(b) A dog.
(c) A snake.
(d) A hedgehog.

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

7. When Tansey tells Sarah that she is a "diamond pulled from a coal bucket," what is he implying about her family?
(a) They are ugly.
(b) They are criminals.
(c) They are poorly educated.
(d) They are poor.

8. What evidence does Jimmy provide that Tug has a psychiatric disorder?
(a) Tug is on psychiatric medication.
(b) Tug was recently hospitalized for depression.
(c) Tug is seeing a therapist.
(d) Tug sees and hears things that are not there.

9. 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.

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

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

12. After Matteen came out of the woods on the night he first kissed Sarah, what did he do?
(a) Get very drunk.
(b) Call Teddy.
(c) Throw up.
(d) Brag to his friends.

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

14. What is Tug's theory about the two women supposedly sighted with Wayne Clancy?
(a) They are desperate for a child of their own.
(b) They are part of a child trafficking ring.
(c) They are recruiters for a cult.
(d) They are taking him to his birth father.

15. Why does Matteen ride in the back of Teddy's car?
(a) Teddy is wearing a lot of cologne.
(b) He gets car sick.
(c) He likes to ride beside his cue case.
(d) Teddy is smoking.