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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is reasonable to infer that for the "Diamonds" narrator, the most depressing part of the unusually harsh winter is what?
(a) The constant traffic accidents.
(b) The cats dying.
(c) Students falling and getting hurt.
(d) The trash mounding up everywhere.

2. On their visit to Fannigan's house, what does Arm decide Fannigan's outfit is meant to do?
(a) Demonstrate his poverty.
(b) Emphasize his frailty.
(c) Intimidate Arm.
(d) Impress women.

3. What technique is employed in the phrase "the bright white furnace of cold" (175)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Irony.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Juxtaposition.

4. What does Arm reveal to the widow?
(a) Hector is a con man.
(b) Fannigan is dead.
(c) He intends to kill Hector.
(d) Dympna is dead.

5. How did the knees of Eli's suit get stained?
(a) He fell crossing the street to the tavern.
(b) He knelt in the mud when he was peering through a window at the funeral.
(c) While he was walking to the tavern, a passing car splashed mud on them.
(d) He spilled a coffee on them while he was driving to the church.

6. What does Paudi believe is true about Hector?
(a) He is stealing money from their business.
(b) He no longer cares about anything except Maire.
(c) He spends too much time worrying about the police.
(d) He is dangerous and unpredictable.

7. Which is the best description of the "Diamonds" narrator's attitude toward teaching his gym classes?
(a) He is laid-back and even a little lazy, but generally enjoys the job.
(b) He uses it as a way to recapture some of his lost high-school athletic glory.
(c) He barely registers being there because he is so distracted by his urge to drink.
(d) He is meticulous and demanding, but questions whether the job is meaningful.

8. What is Dympna's main concern with the way that Hector and Paudi want to deal with Fannigan?
(a) It will attract police attention.
(b) It is cruel and immoral.
(c) He needs Fannigan in order to run his business.
(d) Charlie will be devastated if she finds out.

9. How does Siobhán know the "Diamonds" narrator?
(a) She is a friend of the narrator's sister.
(b) Her son is in the narrator's gym class.
(c) She remembers the narrator from high school.
(d) Her brother is the school principal.

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

11. After Paudi shows Dympna the injured dog, what question does he ask Dympna?
(a) Whether Hector already told him what happened
(b) Whether Dympna will euthanize the dog for him.
(c) Whether he thinks they can trust a vet to come to the farm.
(d) Whether he knows of a good vet.

12. When Doran left the band, where did he go?
(a) Helsinki.
(b) London.
(c) Galway.
(d) Home to his mother's house.

13. What is the name of the band that Doran and Eli were in?
(a) Sunken Figure.
(b) Skullduggery Nine.
(c) My Existence.
(d) Satan on Sabbatical.

14. In Doran's opinion, what has kept him from going to the funeral?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Propriety.

15. What does Arm sit watching while he waits for Dympna?
(a) A dog in a neighbor's window.
(b) A video of Brandon's band playing.
(c) Two schoolgirls smoking and talking.
(d) The Nephin Mountains in the distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 136, how does Dympna describe Arm?

2. Besides money, what does Arm take from the horse farm?

3. What does an examination of his own hands reveal to the "Diamonds" narrator?

4. Which word best describes the uncles' house?

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

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