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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color is the light in the man's bedroom?
2. After completing her first draft of the story, what does the woman realize about it?
3. Who is "thinking of writing a letter to the President" (20)?
4. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
5. What can be inferred about the woman from the description of the women who try to get her to sit down at their church?
Short Essay Questions
1. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
2. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
3. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
4. What comment does the story make about paring a story down to the essentials, and what does this have to do with Davis's own style?
5. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
6. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
7. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
8. 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?
9. What does the woman realize about her religious belief and the calm she feels?
10. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the role that the newscasters and the news play in "The Center of the Story." Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the fly that the writer ends up spending her time watching at the Baptist church. Support your essay with evidence from the text, and be sure to cite any outside sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the motif of inclusion and exclusion in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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