Araby Quiz--Whole Story
This quiz includes questions about both the first and second half of the story.
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1. Who wrote Araby? *
2. Who is Mangan? *
3. Check all the interpretations for the word "sombre" in the following sentence? "When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre." *
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4. In this passage, what is the best connotation (meaning) for "career"?: "The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness." *
5. Why did the boys hide from the narrator's uncle? *
6. In what country is the story set? *
7. What places does the narrator say seem "...most hostile to romance"? Choose all that apply. *
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8. What is Araby? Check all that apply. *
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9. On the day of the narrator's excursion what was his school teacher worried about? *
10. What does the word "garrulous" mean? "She was an old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose. I had to endure the gossip of the tea-table." *
11. How many forms of be are in this passage? "At nine o'clock I heard my uncle's latchkey in the hall door. I heard him talking to himself and heard the hallstand rocking when it had received the weight of his overcoat. I could interpret these signs. When he was midway through his dinner I asked him to give me the money to go to the bazaar." *
12. What is a florin? *
13. When the young lady at the bazaar spoke to the narrator "out of a sense of duty" was she: *
14. In the sentence: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger," the narrator... Check ALL that apply. *
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15. In what city is this story set? *
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