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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. 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) Regular.
(b) Pissheads.
(c) Senior.
(d) Respectable.

2. When Bat compares himself to "a thickset golem hewn from the scrabbled, sodden dirt of Connaught," what literary technique is employed?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Paradox.

3. What does Val wonder if Martina knows about Joan Doody?
(a) Joan is leaving soon for college in Dublin.
(b) Joan has a crush on Davy Boran.
(c) Joan has a reputation for being dangerous.
(d) Joan and Val have slept together.

4. What does "Father Time" always have with him?
(a) A beer.
(b) A book.
(c) A dog.
(d) A knife.

5. What do Tain, Heg, and Bat do on their break?
(a) Scroll through their phones.
(b) Drink beer.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Smoke a joint.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tug offer the boy as a toll for using "his" bridge?

2. Why is Teddy unable to speak at the end of "Bait" (35)?

3. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?

4. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?

5. Why are there rumors about Sarah's parentage circulating around town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the main character of "Stand Your Skin."

3. What is the relationship between Jimmy and Marlene?

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

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

6. Describe Bat's relationship with his mother in "Stand Your Skin."

7. How did Matteen and Sarah first get together, and how did their relationship end?

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

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

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

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