"The Eighty-Yard Quiz" / English 311 / Fall 2003 / Bill Stobb

1.  In “The Eighty-Yard Run,” which of the following does Christian recognize as a symbol of Louise’s growing independence:

            a.         a knife

            b.         a football

            c.         a hat

            d.         a dress

2.  Why is there bitter irony in Christian’s realization that “[h]e had practiced the wrong thing?” 

3-5.  Identify which story each of the following lines is from: “The Eighty-Yard Run,” “A Life Lived Passively,” or the untitled story by Mark Von Ruden.

3.  “[H]is mind was blank.  He stood there staring at the light that was out underneath one of the buttons on the coke machine.”

4.  “He was bored, and none of what he saw or heard or dutifully read made much sense to him and finally he gave it up.”

5.  “I didn’t know where I was going or what I was going to do but I seemed to have wandered toward Jim’s Auto Repair.”