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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: The Center of the Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
(a) They are collecting the offering.
(b) They are the choir.
(c) They are ushers.
(d) They are worship leaders.

2. What technique is used in the sentence: "The story is flat and even, just as the earth seems flat and even when a hurricane is advancing over it" (19)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

3. What does the landlady say the mayor gave her?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A stove.
(c) Carpet.
(d) An award.

4. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) The Trials of Job.
(c) The Garden of Eden.
(d) Jonah and the Great Fish.

5. On her train ride, what does the woman realize she has not given much thought to?
(a) Her friend's illness.
(b) The devil.
(c) Her next story.
(d) The newscasters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?

2. Where is the woman's landlady from?

3. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?

4. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?

5. For what reason, besides that "there may not be enough to tell about him," does the woman think that the man might not be the right "center" for her story (20)?

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