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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the main character find that the story she is working on is not an easy one to write?
(a) It is about friendship.
(b) It is about death.
(c) It is about fear.
(d) It is about religion.

3. In what religion are the High Holy Days a sacred time?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Islam.

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

5. What detail in the description of the man's bedroom indicates how close the hurricane is getting?
(a) The flickering electricity.
(b) The television weather forecast.
(c) The windows rattling.
(d) The drawn blinds.

6. What detail in the description of the man indicates how ill he feels?
(a) The way his ribs protrude.
(b) The smell coming from his skin.
(c) The sounds he is making.
(d) The color of his face.

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

8. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
(a) Energized.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Confused.
(d) Peaceful.

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

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

11. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
(a) She is not a Christian.
(b) She is not Black.
(c) She is White.
(d) She is Jewish.

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

13. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?
(a) Contemplated suicide.
(b) Shown disrespect to God.
(c) Told a harmful lie about someone.
(d) Cursed God's name.

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

15. In the story's opening sentence, what is implied about the main character's writing?
(a) She does not deserve the praise she has gotten.
(b) Her readers are gradually deserting her.
(c) She is losing interest in her career.
(d) More than one of her stories is uninteresting.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does the man in the story feel so ill?

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

5. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?

(see the answer keys)

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