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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. What is Martina's attitude toward the young customers trading phone numbers and kissing one another goodbye in the parking lot?

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

3. On the day the story opens, what does Bat do after dinner but before he starts drinking?

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

5. What does Bat's mother accuse him of constantly doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tain bring with her to the bar, and what ends up happening to it?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of Heg's character being a college student?

3. Describe the main character of "Stand Your Skin."

4. Who is Martina's college boyfriend, and why is she thinking about ending the relationship?

5. What happens when the four underage girls arrive at the club on the night the story opens?

6. When Jimmy and Tug leave the pub and see Mark's car, what do they do?

7. Who is Nubbin Tansey, and what trouble does he cause at Quillinan's Pub?

8. How does Teddy end up in Bleak Woods, and what happens to him, there?

9. In what sense does Bat try to protect Tain's childhood?

10. What happens on the final Saturday of the story "The Moon"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the rhetorical function of the descriptive language used on pages 32-35 of "Bait"? Make and defend a claim about the significance of the diction and imagery used in this section; be sure to take into account what has already happened in the story, the action that occurs on pages 32-35, and the story's characterization of Teddy.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write and essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic significance of the children playing at the bridge in "The Clancy Kid." Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

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