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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do Jenny and Sarah lead Teddy when they leave the pub?
2. What technique is used in Teddy's description of a pool ball spinning "confusedly on its own axis" (31)?
3. 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)?
4. In Teddy's opinion, how has constant attention affected Sarah's personality?
5. What does Jimmy feel when he and Tug reach the other side of the bridge?
Short Essay Questions
1. When "Bait" opens, where are Matteen and Teddy, and why are they there?
2. What happens when the four underage girls arrive at the club on the night the story opens?
3. Who is Nubbin Tansey, and what trouble does he cause at Quillinan's Pub?
4. Describe the main character of "Stand Your Skin."
5. Who is the "Clancy kid," and what happened to him?
6. Describe the narrator of "Bait."
7. Describe Bat's relationship with his mother in "Stand Your Skin."
8. What is the rhetorical purpose of Heg's character being a college student?
9. What in Tug's interaction with the children at the bridge demonstrates the softer side of his nature?
10. Who is "Father Time"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of Dukic's character in "Kindly Forget My Existence." Think carefully about where he is, what he does, what he says, and how he looks as you consider what he might represent or how his character functions relative to the story's main characters. Use textual evidence to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "The abandoned overcoat in "Kindly Forget My Existence" is symbolic of the many ways in which characters throughout the anthology experience a kind of 'loss' when they finally shed their 'young skins' and move on to better things." Use evidence from throughout the anthology in support of your claims.
Essay Topic 3
What is the rhetorical function of the graphic depictions of violence in "Calm With Horses"? Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the purpose of including such detailed descriptions of violence; use textual evidence to support your ideas.
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