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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. Doran's state after the band breakup is described as a "fugue." What does this mean he was experiencing?
(a) A suicidal depression.
(b) A dissociative loss of personal identity.
(c) A reflective state brought on by trauma.
(d) A temporary personality change.

2. What is the "Diamonds" narrator intending to do when he leaves the school on Monday morning?
(a) Go into the city.
(b) Go to Siobhán's house.
(c) Go to a pub.
(d) Get coffee and a newspaper.

3. What does Arm reveal to the widow?
(a) Fannigan is dead.
(b) He intends to kill Hector.
(c) Hector is a con man.
(d) Dympna is dead.

4. When Doran left the band, where did he go?
(a) London.
(b) Home to his mother's house.
(c) Helsinki.
(d) Galway.

5. Where are the barman's scars in "Kindly Forget My Existence"?
(a) On his hands.
(b) On his throat.
(c) On his arms.
(d) On his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the knees of Eli's suit get stained?

2. On page 176, how does the "Diamonds" narrator describe the smell inside his car that makes him gag?

3. What piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?

4. What does Eli tell the barman when they are outside having a cigarette?

5. On their visit to Fannigan's house, what does Arm decide Fannigan's outfit is meant to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Arm's son not live with him?

2. How did Arm and Dympna meet?

3. What does Arm think, in retrospect, about the events at the uncles' farm?

4. What does the barman discover has been left behind after Doran and Eli leave, and what does he do with it?

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

6. In the years since their band broke up, how have Eli and Doran's lives differed?

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

8. Who is Mellick, and what story does he tell at AA meetings?

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

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

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