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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. Dympna's comments about being able to change the uncles' minds on the day after Arm kills Flannigan are an example of what technique?
(a) Irony.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Allegory.

2. What does Dympna do for a living?
(a) Tends bar at Quillinan's.
(b) Sells illegal guns.
(c) Sells marijuana.
(d) Runs a boxing club.

3. 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 how the barman knows whether the people were dead.
(c) He asks if the barman was the shooter in his story.
(d) He asks if the story is true or if he made it up.

4. How did the barman get his scars?
(a) His wife tried to kill him.
(b) Fighting in a war.
(c) He attempted suicide.
(d) From a criminal associate.

5. What sport did the "Diamonds" narrator excel in as a teenager?
(a) Field hockey.
(b) Rugby.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Football.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different about the song that was finally a hit for Doran and Eli's band?

2. What is in the satchel that Dympna brings to the uncles' farm?

3. What does an examination of his own hands reveal to the "Diamonds" narrator?

4. What offends Paudi about his brother's personal grooming?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Owen Doran doing in the beginning of "Kindly Forget My Existence," and why?

2. What does Arm believe is his parents' only real flaw, and why does he think they have this flaw?

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

4. What is the narrator's current job, and why, in "Diamonds"?

5. What is Hector and Paudi's response to the situation with Fannigan?

6. How did Arm and Dympna meet?

7. When Arm runs into Fannigan on his walk on the night that Brandon's band plays at Quillinan's, what does Arm do to Fannigan?

8. What is Arm's attitude toward his son?

9. What evidence is there that the narrator in "Diamonds" is determined to overcome his alcohol abuse?

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

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