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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. What is the description of Doran's "inexpertly folded tie" intended to accomplish (189)?

2. What does Dympna do for a living?

3. What makes Eli realize that he has been overreacting to the idea of going to Maryanne's funeral?

4. What is the name of the bar where Doran is drinking in the beginning of "Kindly Forget My Existence"?

5. What technique is evident in the page 143 sentence "It was drenched in a swathe of syrupy, sticky stuff turned dark plum against the denim"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Arm tell Hector he wants from Maire, and why does he want it?

3. Who are the two people that Arm calls when he reaches Ballintober, and why does he call them?

4. What is Dympna's intention in bringing Arm inside the house at the farm, and how does Paudi react?

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

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

7. How did Arm and Dympna meet?

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

9. What does Paudi do to Dympna, and what is Arm's reaction?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write and essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic significance of the children playing at the bridge in "The Clancy Kid." Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "Young Skins identifies college as a gatekeeping institution that undermines the Irish value of egalitarianism." Use textual evidence from at least two stories in the anthology to support your claims.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "The abandoned overcoat in "Kindly Forget My Existence" is symbolic of the many ways in which characters throughout the anthology experience a kind of 'loss' when they finally shed their 'young skins' and move on to better things." Use evidence from throughout the anthology in support of your claims.

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