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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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 White.
(c) She is not Black.
(d) She is Jewish.
2. 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) Parallelism.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Non sequitur.
3. What is it logical to infer about the church women who are wearing red?
(a) They are collecting the offering.
(b) They are worship leaders.
(c) They are ushers.
(d) They are the choir.
4. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Confused.
(d) Energized.
5. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Assonance.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the landlady say the mayor gave her?
2. What denomination is the last church that the woman visits?
3. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?
4. What does the woman think might be preventing her from committing to a center for her story?
5. What does the hurricane do to the city in the woman's story?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
2. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
3. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
4. Besides the timing of his phone call, what connects the man who thinks he is dying to the rest of the story the woman is writing?
5. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
6. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
7. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
8. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
9. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
10. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
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