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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. When Teddy says, "I had a horn now," what is he saying is happening (33)?
(a) He is sexually aroused.
(b) He is distracted and tired.
(c) He is furiously angry.
(d) He is becoming frightened.

2. Where is the Peacock located?
(a) Glanbeigh.
(b) Rossbeigh.
(c) Ceanneraugh.
(d) Glaunagillagh.

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

4. When Martina describes "Father Time" as "about two hundred years old" and having a "mountainous shaggy white beard," what technique is being used (47)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Personification.

5. Why is Val not very surprised that one of the four underage girls who tries to enter the club knows him by name?
(a) He used to date her older sister.
(b) She went to school with his brothers.
(c) He is well-known in their small town.
(d) She is his cousin, Mary Devaney.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Val's reaction to finding a pubic hair in his teeth?

3. In the context of Young Skins, what does the word "estate" mean?

4. What technique is evident in the phrase, "stall by a booth as she swabbed down tabletops sticky with spilled spirits" (41)?

5. Why does Matteen ride in the back of Teddy's car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the four underage girls arrive at the club on the night the story opens?

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

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

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

5. Why do Val and Martina keep their relationship a secret?

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

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

8. Who is "Father Time"?

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

10. What is the relationship between Jimmy and Marlene?

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