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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Calm With Horses" Pages 132-167.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the "drummer" that Joan mentions in her conversation with Martina?
(a) Joan's brother.
(b) Val.
(c) Martina's boyfriend.
(d) A man whose band plays at the Peacock.

2. What technique is used in Teddy's description of a pool ball spinning "confusedly on its own axis" (31)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Euphemism.

3. What is the first clue that Arm has died?
(a) The shift in tone from bright and cheerful to mournful and dark.
(b) The shift in the narrator's focus from Arm to Maire.
(c) The old man in fishing gear reappearing.
(d) Maire's repeated urging about getting medical attention.

4. Who is Usula?
(a) Jack's equine therapist.
(b) One of Dympna's sisters.
(c) Dympna's mother.
(d) The mother of Arm's son.

5. On page 5, what unusual diction does Jimmy use to describe Marlene's eyes?
(a) "Verdigris."
(b) "Cerulean."
(c) "Citrine."
(d) "Smaragdine."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Val wonder if Martina knows about Joan Doody?

2. Dympna's comments about being able to change the uncles' minds on the day after Arm kills Flannigan are an example of what technique?

3. What technique is evident in the page 143 sentence "It was drenched in a swathe of syrupy, sticky stuff turned dark plum against the denim"?

4. What does Matteen do for a living?

5. Which character "resembles nothing so much as his own freshly revived corpse" (54)?

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