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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bat is eating dinner after work, why are the two little Minion boys in the kitchen?
(a) They have come to play with Bat's younger brother.
(b) They have brought over a cake from their mother.
(c) His mother is cutting their hair.
(d) His aunt wants Bat to babysit them.

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

3. Where is the Peacock located?
(a) Ceanneraugh.
(b) Glanbeigh.
(c) Glaunagillagh.
(d) Rossbeigh.

4. 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.

5. Why does Heg invite Bat to drinks at The Yellow Belly?
(a) Heg is heading back to college.
(b) Heg knows that Bat will buy him drinks.
(c) It is Heg's birthday.
(d) Heg thinks that Bat might want to meet the barmaid.

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

7. What do Tain, Heg, and Bat do on their break?
(a) Drink beer.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Scroll through their phones.
(d) Smoke a joint.

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

9. The atmosphere of "Bait" is partially created by what unusual weather?
(a) Ten inches of rain over four days.
(b) Record-breaking high winds.
(c) Thirteen days of heat and no rain.
(d) Lightening in a cloudless sky.

10. What does "Father Time" always have with him?
(a) A beer.
(b) A dog.
(c) A book.
(d) A knife.

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

12. What does Jimmy feel when he and Tug reach the other side of the bridge?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Pride.
(d) Regret.

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

14. Why does Tansey call Matteen "Judgeboy" (29)?
(a) His father is a judge.
(b) His last name is "Judge."
(c) He served as a county fair judge.
(d) He wears a long black coat in winter.

15. Which sentence most clearly conveys a thematic motif of this story?
(a) "Damage abides beneath the surface" (53).
(b) "None but the old dear call him Eamonn now" (53).
(c) "Bat handles his hair delicately" (52).
(d) "He splashes his face and watches the water drip like glue from his chin" (52).

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character "resembles nothing so much as his own freshly revived corpse" (54)?

2. What does the Irish slang expression "shift" mean?

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

4. After Matteen came out of the woods on the night he first kissed Sarah, what did he do?

5. 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"?

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