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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. How did the "Diamonds" narrator's cat die?
(a) While drunk, the narrator rolled on him and suffocated him.
(b) He escaped the narrator's flat and ran into traffic.
(c) He found and ate drugs the narrator had stashed in his closet.
(d) The narrator forgot to give him food and water.

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

3. What is the barman's name?
(a) Ajdin.
(b) Borya.
(c) Dukic.
(d) Besim.

4. What was Maryanne's failed solo record about?
(a) The war in Bosnia.
(b) Holocaust victims.
(c) Her marriage to Eli.
(d) Animal rights.

5. What does Arm take from Fannigan's house?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A television.
(c) A religious statuette.
(d) A wad of cash.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 173, the "Diamonds" narrator describes "the abrupt drumlins of his knuckles." What are "drumlins"?

2. Why does Siobhán dismiss the rule of anonymity at the meeting?

3. What does Eli notice makes up the pattern on Doran's tie?

4. Dympna's comments about being able to change the uncles' minds on the day after Arm kills Flannigan are an example of what technique?

5. In Doran's opinion, what has kept him from going to the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made Eli and Maryanne's marriage a disaster?

2. How do Eli, Doran, and Maryanne know one another?

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

4. How did Arm and Dympna meet?

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

6. When Arm finally gets what he wants from Maire Mirkin, what is ironic about the situation?

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

8. When Arm and Dympna arrive at the uncles' farm, what does Paudi show them?

9. 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?

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

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