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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator describing on page 1 when he talks about "tenderized brain cases and seesawing stomachs"?
(a) Hangovers.
(b) Sea sickness.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) Migraine headaches.

2. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?
(a) The college students are abandoning those left at home.
(b) The college students are not smarter, just luckier.
(c) The college students are condescending and rude.
(d) The college students are their hope for the future.

3. What does Matteen do for a living?
(a) Plays pool.
(b) Repairs roads.
(c) Sells drugs.
(d) Builds houses.

4. Jimmy calls Marlene's mother "pragmatic" (4) How does she demonstrate this quality?
(a) By not caring when Marlene brings Jimmy home at three a.m.
(b) By reading the television listings at three a.m.
(c) By drinking cold tea herself but offering Jimmy and Marlene hot tea.
(d) By watching David for Marlene while Marlene goes out with friends.

5. What is Martina's attitude toward the young customers trading phone numbers and kissing one another goodbye in the parking lot?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Scorn.
(c) Envy.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of "The Moon," Boris and Val drink Lucozade. What kind of beverage is this?

2. What does Jimmy feel when he and Tug reach the other side of the bridge?

3. What is implied when the crowd begins to thin out after Tansey arrives?

4. Jimmy says that Tug has a "lugubrious air" (3). What is another way to describe this quality?

5. On the day the story opens, what does Bat do after dinner but before he starts drinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jimmy and Tug leave the pub and see Mark's car, what do they do?

2. What happens on the final Saturday of the story "The Moon"?

3. Why does Bat think that something inappropriate has happened between Heg and Tain?

4. What are the two other names that Tug is known by, and how did he get them?

5. Who is Nubbin Tansey, and what trouble does he cause at Quillinan's Pub?

6. What is the rhetorical purpose of Heg's character being a college student?

7. How does Val know Martina Boran, and how has their relationship changed since he met her?

8. What does Tain bring with her to the bar, and what ends up happening to it?

9. What happened to Bat at Monroe's takeaway?

10. In what sense does Bat try to protect Tain's childhood?

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