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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 does the hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
(a) Produces winds that uproot trees and tear off several roofs.
(b) Causes flooding that disrupts transportation.
(c) Drops large hail that smashes windows in buildings and in cars.
(d) Passes by without actually striking the city.

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) Personification.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

3. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

4. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?
(a) A death.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A flood.
(d) A religious crisis.

5. What does the woman suspect that the man believes about his blasphemy?
(a) It caused his illness.
(b) It is no one's business but his own.
(c) It is the reason she is angry at him.
(d) It caused the hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is with the landlady when the landlady is talking about the mayor?

2. What does the sick man want when he calls the main character?

3. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?

4. What technique is used in the sentence: "Outside her apartment, the weather was changing: the wind rose, the branches swayed on the young trees, and the leaves fluttered" (19)?

5. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?

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