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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Stand Your Skin".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tansey doing when Teddy says that he "gouged the baize" (31)?
(a) Ripping the surface of the pool table.
(b) Using his cue to tap the wooden edge of the table.
(c) Sinking the shot that wins the game.
(d) Executing a trick shot.

2. The description of Tain's knees as "blunt, knobby, and flushed scaldingly red" reinforces what about Tain (65)?
(a) Her plainness.
(b) Her lack of social skills.
(c) Her idealism.
(d) Her youth.

3. What is the likely purpose of the repetition in the page 3 sentence "He is in a good mood, a good, good, good but edgy, edgy, edgy mood"?
(a) It creates an ironic tone that characterizes Jimmy more than Tug.
(b) It foreshadows Tug's obsession with the Clancy boy.
(c) It reinforces the narrator's claim that people are afraid of Tug.
(d) It communicates how heightened Tug's emotions are.

4. How old is Jimmy?
(a) 23.
(b) 25.
(c) 22.
(d) 24.

5. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?
(a) Tain tells him that she has slept with Heg.
(b) He sees Luke kiss Tain.
(c) He has had far too much to drink.
(d) Luke brings up the incident at Munroe's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Nubbin Tansey since the incident at Munroe's?

2. Which sentence most clearly conveys a thematic motif of this story?

3. What does Tug do to Mark's car?

4. Jimmy says that Tug has a "lugubrious air" (3). What is another way to describe this quality?

5. What is the best way to describe how the young men outside The Yellow Belly feel about those who go off to college?

(see the answer key)

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