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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 technique is used in the sentence "Limply piled and dripping, it resembled the lustreless corpse of a drowned animal" (190)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

2. What question does Eli ask the barman about the story he told them in the bar?
(a) He asks if he told the story to upset Doran.
(b) He asks if the story is true or if he made it up.
(c) He asks if the barman was the shooter in his story.
(d) He asks how the barman knows whether the people were dead.

3. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?
(a) A photo of Jack.
(b) The horse.
(c) Rebecca's jacket.
(d) Some first aid supplies.

4. Why is Doran trying to ignore the ticking of the clock above the bar?
(a) He is upset that Eli is so late coming to meet him.
(b) He feels guilty about staying past the funeral start time.
(c) He has a headache from a hangover.
(d) He is agitated about being alone in the bar.

5. What piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?
(a) Fannigan is dead.
(b) Charlie has run away.
(c) Ursula is in college.
(d) Jack loves horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the "Diamonds" narrator describe as "sick-of-their-own-shit degenerates" (171)?

2. At the AA meeting, what does the man say he was doing when he lost his fingers?

3. In his description of his train ride home in the opening of "Diamonds," what tone does the narrator adopt in his description of the landscape?

4. What is the barman's name?

5. What does Paudi do with the stone that Arm sets on the table?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rebecca's opinion of Arm after their conversation at Quillinan's?

2. What is Dympna's intention in bringing Arm inside the house at the farm, and how does Paudi react?

3. Why does the narrator of "Diamonds" need to rely on his former school principal once he is in Glanbeigh?

4. Whom does the barman tell Doran he reminds him of?

5. What are Arm and Dympna doing in the opening of "Calm With Horses"?

6. What happened on the band's tour that caused Doran to leave the band?

7. What motives for helping him does the narrator of "Diamonds" ascribe to his former principal?

8. Where does Arm head first after he leaves the uncles' farm, and what does he do once he gets there?

9. What does Arm tell Hector he wants from Maire, and why does he want it?

10. What do the narrator and Siobhán see as they are driving down the quay road, and what is Siobhán's reaction?

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