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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. 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)?
3. What specific Biblical story does the writer focus on?
4. What detail of the woman's train ride reinforces the motif of things that come close to happening but do not actually happen?
5. How does the woman realize her study of religion has made her feel?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the woman is riding the train, after the hurricane has passed, what two realizations does she come to?
2. 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?
3. What did the woman originally begin her story with that she later decides to edit out?
4. What paradox related to religion does the woman encounter in writing her story?
5. In the end of "The Center of the Story," what does the woman realize about the emptiness at the center of her story?
6. What contradiction does Davis's first sentence introduce?
7. What arguments for and against including the newscasters in her story does the woman entertain?
8. Why does the woman watch the news so often, and what does she hear on the news that makes her feel exicted?
9. 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?
10. Who are the people in the story that the writer is working on?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the narrative voice of "The Center of the Story." Use quoted textual evidence to support your claims.
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