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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 the name of the band that Doran and Eli were in?
2. What technique is used in the sentence "Limply piled and dripping, it resembled the lustreless corpse of a drowned animal" (190)?
3. When Arm and Dympna meet Hector at Lally's, what conspiracy theory is the odd older man with Hector trying to advance?
4. What was Dympna's reaction to Arm sleeping with three of his seven sisters?
5. Doran's state after the band breakup is described as a "fugue." What does this mean he was experiencing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Hector and Paudi's response to the situation with Fannigan?
2. When Arm and Dympna arrive at the uncles' farm, what does Paudi show them?
3. Whom does the barman tell Doran he reminds him of?
4. Why does Arm's son not live with him?
5. What is Arm's attitude toward his son?
6. What does Arm believe is his parents' only real flaw, and why does he think they have this flaw?
7. What is Owen Doran doing in the beginning of "Kindly Forget My Existence," and why?
8. What are Arm and Dympna doing in the opening of "Calm With Horses"?
9. What is the narrator's current job, and why, in "Diamonds"?
10. Who is Siobhán Maher, and how does she recognize the narrator of "Diamonds"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the real fascination that Tug has with the missing Clancy child? Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the symbolic significance of this missing child. Use textual evidence to defend 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
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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