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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paudi do with the stone that Arm sets on the table?
(a) Tosses it into the fireplace.
(b) Throws it at Arm's face.
(c) Tells Arm to get it out of his house.
(d) Puts it in his pocket.

2. What technique is used when Paudi says that he will "have to take [the dog] for a walk up the heather" (135)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Personification.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Synechdoche.

3. How old is the narrator of "Diamonds"
(a) 24.
(b) 30.
(c) 27.
(d) 33.

4. What is the "Diamonds" narrator intending to do when he leaves the school on Monday morning?
(a) Go to a pub.
(b) Get coffee and a newspaper.
(c) Go to Siobhán's house.
(d) Go into the city.

5. Whom does the "Diamonds" narrator describe as "sick-of-their-own-shit degenerates" (171)?
(a) His friends in the city.
(b) His AA group.
(c) His fellow staff members.
(d) His students.

6. Why does Arm not run for the car when Paudi pulls out his rifle?
(a) He does not have the keys.
(b) It is too far away.
(c) He thinks Paudi is joking.
(d) It is out of gas.

7. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?
(a) A photo of Jack.
(b) The horse.
(c) Rebecca's jacket.
(d) Some first aid supplies.

8. In his description of his train ride home in the opening of "Diamonds," what tone does the narrator adopt in his description of the landscape?
(a) Admiring.
(b) Contemptuous.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Nostalgic.

9. What was different about the song that was finally a hit for Doran and Eli's band?
(a) It was a punk-rock song.
(b) Doran wrote the music.
(c) Maryanne sang lead.
(d) Eli wrote the lyrics.

10. On page 175, what does the "Diamonds" narrator say appeals to him about Siobhán Maher?
(a) Her "urgency."
(b) Her "feral beauty."
(c) Her "wisp of a voice."
(d) Her "pliancy."

11. What is the barman's name?
(a) Borya.
(b) Besim.
(c) Ajdin.
(d) Dukic.

12. How did the knees of Eli's suit get stained?
(a) He knelt in the mud when he was peering through a window at the funeral.
(b) While he was walking to the tavern, a passing car splashed mud on them.
(c) He fell crossing the street to the tavern.
(d) He spilled a coffee on them while he was driving to the church.

13. What technique is evident in the page 143 sentence "It was drenched in a swathe of syrupy, sticky stuff turned dark plum against the denim"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synesthesia.

14. What does Dympna do for a living?
(a) Runs a boxing club.
(b) Tends bar at Quillinan's.
(c) Sells illegal guns.
(d) Sells marijuana.

15. In Doran's opinion, what has kept him from going to the funeral?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Propriety.
(d) Cowardice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dympna's reaction to Arm sleeping with three of his seven sisters?

2. What does Arm sit watching while he waits for Dympna?

3. Dympna is convinced that Hector is "working the slow grift" on the woman in Ballintober (98). What does this mean he thinks Hector is doing?

4. Which word best describes the uncles' house?

5. On page 176, how does the "Diamonds" narrator describe the smell inside his car that makes him gag?

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