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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. On page 195, how does Eli characterize his marriage to Maryanne?
(a) "Insanity."
(b) "Craven."
(c) "Panicked."
(d) "Hopeful."
2. What is the first clue that Arm has died?
(a) Maire's repeated urging about getting medical attention.
(b) The shift in the narrator's focus from Arm to Maire.
(c) The shift in tone from bright and cheerful to mournful and dark.
(d) The old man in fishing gear reappearing.
3. What is the barman's name?
(a) Ajdin.
(b) Borya.
(c) Dukic.
(d) Besim.
4. What technique is used in the sentence "Limply piled and dripping, it resembled the lustreless corpse of a drowned animal" (190)?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.
5. What does Paudi ask about Jack?
(a) How often Arm sees him.
(b) Whether he has gotten better.
(c) How old he is.
(d) Whether he likes the horse therapy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the "Diamonds" narrator intending to do when he leaves the school on Monday morning?
2. Where are the barman's scars in "Kindly Forget My Existence"?
3. What is Dympna's main concern with the way that Hector and Paudi want to deal with Fannigan?
4. What makes Eli realize that he has been overreacting to the idea of going to Maryanne's funeral?
5. When Doran left the band, where did he go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Arm think, in retrospect, about the events at the uncles' farm?
2. What is Owen Doran doing in the beginning of "Kindly Forget My Existence," and why?
3. Why does Arm's son not live with him?
4. Why does the narrator of "Diamonds" need to rely on his former school principal once he is in Glanbeigh?
5. What is the narrator's current job, and why, in "Diamonds"?
6. Whom does the barman tell Doran he reminds him of?
7. What is Hector and Paudi's response to the situation with Fannigan?
8. How did Arm and Dympna meet?
9. How do Eli, Doran, and Maryanne know one another?
10. What motives for helping him does the narrator of "Diamonds" ascribe to his former principal?
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