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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 does the page 38 expression "the lights were going up in just over an hour" mean?
(a) The Peacock will close in just over an hour.
(b) Dawn is just over an hour away.
(c) The streetlights will be on in just over an hour.
(d) They will be changing the electric sign over the Peacock in just over an hour.

2. What does the Irish slang expression "shift" mean?
(a) Meet new people.
(b) Kiss; make out.
(c) Drink alcohol.
(d) Use illicit drugs.

3. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?
(a) Respectable.
(b) Pissheads.
(c) Regular.
(d) Senior.

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

5. What technique is being used in the sentence, "He had gaping thyroidal eyes, the broad skull and delicately tissued temples of a monk" (29)?
(a) Irony.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an "alfresco" area of a restaurant?

2. What causes Bat's mother to tell him "You look constantly as if in want" (52)?

3. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?

4. Who tells Tansey to "be nice" (30)?

5. What does Bat find in the gas station's bathroom sink?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the club that is the setting for the first part of "The Moon."

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

3. Describe Bat's recurring dream.

4. What is the relationship between Jimmy and Marlene?

5. When "Bait" opens, where are Matteen and Teddy, and why are they there?

6. Who is "Father Time"?

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

8. Describe the narrator of "Bait."

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

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

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