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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On their visit to Fannigan's house, what does Arm decide Fannigan's outfit is meant to do?
(a) Impress women.
(b) Intimidate Arm.
(c) Emphasize his frailty.
(d) Demonstrate his poverty.

2. It is reasonable to infer that for the "Diamonds" narrator, the most depressing part of the unusually harsh winter is what?
(a) The constant traffic accidents.
(b) Students falling and getting hurt.
(c) The cats dying.
(d) The trash mounding up everywhere.

3. What does Eli tell the barman when they are outside having a cigarette?
(a) That he has a wife and child.
(b) That Doran is not a close friend of his.
(c) That he is trying to quit smoking.
(d) That he used to be married to Maryanne.

4. What technique is used in the sentence "Limply piled and dripping, it resembled the lustreless corpse of a drowned animal" (190)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Personification.

5. What does Arm sit watching while he waits for Dympna?
(a) Two schoolgirls smoking and talking.
(b) A dog in a neighbor's window.
(c) The Nephin Mountains in the distance.
(d) A video of Brandon's band playing.

6. Where are the barman's scars in "Kindly Forget My Existence"?
(a) On his face.
(b) On his arms.
(c) On his hands.
(d) On his throat.

7. What was Dympna's reaction to Arm sleeping with three of his seven sisters?
(a) He decided that his sisters approved of Arm and gave Arm a job.
(b) He jokingly asked Arm what he thought was wrong with the other four.
(c) He beat Arm up and made him apologize.
(d) He got Hector to threaten Arm with violence unless he stopped.

8. What offends Paudi about his brother's personal grooming?
(a) His hair-care routine.
(b) He has started wearing jewelry.
(c) His collection of colognes.
(d) His mismatched clothing.

9. How did the "Diamonds" narrator's cat die?
(a) The narrator forgot to give him food and water.
(b) While drunk, the narrator rolled on him and suffocated him.
(c) He escaped the narrator's flat and ran into traffic.
(d) He found and ate drugs the narrator had stashed in his closet.

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

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

12. On page 173, the "Diamonds" narrator describes "the abrupt drumlins of his knuckles." What are "drumlins"?
(a) Taut membranes stretched over wooden hoops or barrel heads.
(b) Teardrop-shaped ridges formed by glacial action.
(c) Short and stout mythical humanoids.
(d) Boulders smoothed by wave action.

13. On page 171, the "Diamonds" narrator describes his "long, hortatory riffs." What would these be?
(a) Improvisational music.
(b) Teasing jokes.
(c) Detailed critiques.
(d) Encouraging speeches.

14. What was Maryanne's failed solo record about?
(a) Animal rights.
(b) Holocaust victims.
(c) The war in Bosnia.
(d) Her marriage to Eli.

15. What does Arm reveal to the widow?
(a) He intends to kill Hector.
(b) Dympna is dead.
(c) Hector is a con man.
(d) Fannigan is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides teaching gym classes part time, what other job does the "Diamonds" narrator hold at Saint Carmichael's?

2. Why is Doran trying to ignore the ticking of the clock above the bar?

3. What is the barman's name?

4. Where does Siobhán's husband work?

5. Why does Arm not run for the car when Paudi pulls out his rifle?

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