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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. Why are rams' horns being blown all around the city?
2. What detail does the story give about the shape of the tape on the windows?
3. The man tells the woman that he has committed "blasphemy" (20). What has he done?
4. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
5. What technique is used in the phrase "the stink of burning hair, fur, and horn" (19)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the story that the woman is writing similar to the earth and different from a hurricane?
2. What is the woman's story about, and what is its major flaw?
3. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
4. What happens when the woman visits a Baptist church?
5. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
6. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
7. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
8. 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?
9. What book has the woman been reading, and what story is she specifically interested in?
10. Why does the man in the main character's story think that he is dying, and what does he do about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Go online and read both some of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and what critics have to say about her writing. Then, write a brief comparison and contrast essay in which you analyze what is similar and what is different in Dickinson's and Davis's styles. Be sure to use textual evidence from both authors and to cite all sources in MLA format (including sources of criticism.)
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the image of the river water coming close to, but not covering, the train tracks. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of things that are absent, missing, or fail to happen in "The Center of the Story." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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