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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Jimmy snaps at Tug about his speculation about Wayne Clancy, how does Tug react?
2. What has happened to Nubbin Tansey since the incident at Munroe's?
3. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?
4. On the day the story opens, what does Bat do after dinner but before he starts drinking?
5. The description of Tain's knees as "blunt, knobby, and flushed scaldingly red" reinforces what about Tain (65)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the four underage girls arrive at the club on the night the story opens?
2. Why do Val and Martina keep their relationship a secret?
3. Describe the club that is the setting for the first part of "The Moon."
4. What happens on the club's balcony, and what does it suggest about Val?
5. Describe Bat's relationship with his mother in "Stand Your Skin."
6. What are the two other names that Tug is known by, and how did he get them?
7. In what sense does Bat try to protect Tain's childhood?
8. Why does Bat think that something inappropriate has happened between Heg and Tain?
9. Describe the narrator of "Bait."
10. What is the rhetorical purpose of Heg's character being a college student?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why are there so few functional romantic relationships in Young Skins? Is this a comment on the environment of Glanbeigh, a comment on Irish culture, or a comment on life in general? Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the anthology's dearth of rewarding romantic relationships. Use textual evidence from throughout the anthology in defense of your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Loyalty to and support of family is an important cultural value in rural Ireland. But in Young Skins, not all "family" is biological. Write an essay that compares and contrasts the "found families" and the "biological families" in the anthology and makes a claim about the thematic significance of the similarities and differences between them. Use evidence from throughout the anthology to defend your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
In "The Moon," Martina seems scornful toward the town where she was raised and the people who have chosen to remain there. This sentiment is expressed by "leavers" and outsiders in several stories in Young Skins. Do the stories offer any counterclaims from the perspectives of the small-town inhabitants, or do the stories leave this perspective unchallenged? Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about what the stories seem to be saying about the value of staying in an environment like Glanbeigh. Use evidence from "The Moon" and at least two other stories to support your ideas.
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