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

2. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
(a) She understands more about herself and her life now that she has written it.
(b) She cannot remember why she wanted to write it in the first place.
(c) She is losing touch with her passion as a writer.
(d) She is afraid that the content of the story will upset her friend.

3. Why was the woman reading the Bible during the period she writes about in her story?
(a) Because she needed comfort during the hurricane.
(b) Because it was the High Holy Days.
(c) Because she wanted to know exactly what it said.
(d) Because she wanted to use Biblical allusions in her writing.

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)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Non sequitur.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Parallelism.

5. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Episcopalian.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Congregationalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?

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

3. 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)?

4. Who is the author of "The Center of the Story"?

5. What does the narrator say "usually promises to be interesting" (19)?

(see the answer key)

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