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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bar where Doran is drinking in the beginning of "Kindly Forget My Existence"?
(a) The Yellow Belly.
(b) The Boatman's Tavern.
(c) Dockery's Pub.
(d) Quillinan's.

2. What piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?
(a) Charlie has run away.
(b) Jack loves horses.
(c) Ursula is in college.
(d) Fannigan is dead.

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

4. At the AA meeting, what does the man say he was doing when he lost his fingers?
(a) Using a bandsaw.
(b) Playing a drinking game.
(c) Mountain climbing.
(d) Swimming in the ocean.

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

6. What is in the satchel that Dympna brings to the uncles' farm?
(a) Money.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Prescription drugs.

7. After Paudi shows Dympna the injured dog, what question does he ask Dympna?
(a) Whether he knows of a good vet.
(b) Whether Hector already told him what happened
(c) Whether Dympna will euthanize the dog for him.
(d) Whether he thinks they can trust a vet to come to the farm.

8. What does Paudi believe is true about Hector?
(a) He no longer cares about anything except Maire.
(b) He is stealing money from their business.
(c) He is dangerous and unpredictable.
(d) He spends too much time worrying about the police.

9. Why is the source of Jack's behaviors that puzzle Arm?
(a) Jack is uncomfortable with Arm.
(b) Jack is poorly disciplined.
(c) Jack is autistic.
(d) Jack has Down's Syndrome.

10. What technique is employed in the phrase "the bright white furnace of cold" (175)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Irony.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

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

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

14. The nickname of the Devers house and Dympna's troubles with women are evidence of what?
(a) The family's poverty.
(b) Prejudice against the Traveller community.
(c) The difficult temperaments of the Devers sisters.
(d) The community's fear of Dympna's reputation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?

2. What does an examination of his own hands reveal to the "Diamonds" narrator?

3. When the "Diamonds" narrator meets the woman in the city, what does he tell her about his life?

4. What does Doran do when Eli wants a drink but the barman is still in the cellar?

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

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