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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 an "alfresco" area of a restaurant?
(a) A smoking section.
(b) The section where alcohol is served.
(c) The area where people wait for takeout orders.
(d) An outdoor section.

2. Who is the person that Bat refers to as "the old dear"?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

3. What is unusual about Bat's hair?
(a) It is a wig.
(b) It is very long.
(c) It is prematurely grey.
(d) It is dyed purple.

4. In "Bait," Teddy describes Matteen as feeling "dolour" (19). What does this mean Matteen is feeling?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Lust.
(d) Pride.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Bat compares himself to "a thickset golem hewn from the scrabbled, sodden dirt of Connaught," what literary technique is employed?

3. Where do Val, Joan, and Martina meet after work?

4. When Teddy says that he and his friends were "flummoxed," what is he saying about them (21)?

5. In Bat's dream, what does the "mustard-seed" suit allude to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the "Clancy kid," and what happened to him?

2. Who is "Father Time"?

3. Who is Martina's college boyfriend, and why is she thinking about ending the relationship?

4. What in Tug's interaction with the children at the bridge demonstrates the softer side of his nature?

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

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

7. Describe Bat's recurring dream.

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

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

10. How does Teddy end up in Bleak Woods, and what happens to him, there?

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