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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Calm With Horses" Pages 79-131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Val not very surprised that one of the four underage girls who tries to enter the club knows him by name?
(a) She is his cousin, Mary Devaney.
(b) She went to school with his brothers.
(c) He is well-known in their small town.
(d) He used to date her older sister.

2. When Jimmy snaps at Tug about his speculation about Wayne Clancy, how does Tug react?
(a) He seems hurt.
(b) He seems angry.
(c) He keeps talking about it.
(d) He laughs.

3. What technique is evident in the phrase, "stall by a booth as she swabbed down tabletops sticky with spilled spirits" (41)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Sibilance.

4. Who is the person that Bat refers to as "the old dear"?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His mother.

5. What is ironic about the text message that Val sends to Martina at the end of the story?
(a) Martina has accidentally left her phone behind at the Peacock.
(b) The reader is aware that Joan is the one who has feelings for Val.
(c) She has already complained to him about a boyfriend being too clingy.
(d) Martina has only pretended to go early to Galway in order to get out of seeing Val again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Irish slang expression "shift" mean?

2. When Arm and Dympna meet Hector at Lally's, what conspiracy theory is the odd older man with Hector trying to advance?

3. Why does his manager send Bat to work in the back?

4. When Bat is eating dinner after work, why are the two little Minion boys in the kitchen?

5. What is the narrator describing on page 1 when he talks about "tenderized brain cases and seesawing stomachs"?

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