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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: "Diamonds".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 communicates how heightened Tug's emotions are.
(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 creates an ironic tone that characterizes Jimmy more than Tug.

2. Why does Arm not run for the car when Paudi pulls out his rifle?
(a) He does not have the keys.
(b) It is out of gas.
(c) He thinks Paudi is joking.
(d) It is too far away.

3. In his description of his train ride home in the opening of "Diamonds," what tone does the narrator adopt in his description of the landscape?
(a) Contemptuous.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Admiring.
(d) Nostalgic.

4. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?
(a) Senior.
(b) Pissheads.
(c) Regular.
(d) Respectable.

5. What does Dympna do for a living?
(a) Tends bar at Quillinan's.
(b) Sells illegal guns.
(c) Sells marijuana.
(d) Runs a boxing club.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nickname of the Devers house and Dympna's troubles with women are evidence of what?

2. To what does Jimmy compare all of Tug's ideas about what might have happened to Wayne Clancy?

3. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?

4. What technique is used when Paudi says that he will "have to take [the dog] for a walk up the heather" (135)?

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

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