The Red Bow PART A: How is the narrator most impacted by his daughter’s death?

A. He becomes willing to go to extreme measures to make sure no one else feels the same pain that he does.
B. He becomes cold and uncaring towards other people and animals in the town.
C. He becomes confused and unable to differentiate between current events and memories of his daughter.
D. He becomes distant and no longer invested in helping Uncle Matt find and kill the remaining infected dogs.

PART B: Which quote from the story best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “Uncle Matt and Dr. Vincent had, on the iMac, on their own (not wanting to bother me) drawn up what they called a Three-Point Emergency Plan” ( Paragraph 80)
B. “Then Uncle Matt held up the bow… and said: All of this may seem confusing but it is not confusing if we remember that it is all about This, simply This, about honoring This, preventing This.” ( Paragraph 87)
C. “God there is so much I don’t remember about that night but one thing I do remember is, as I brought her in, one of her little clogs thunked off onto the linoleum” ( Paragraph 94)
D. “What I’m saying is, with no dogs and no cats, the chance that another father would have to carry his animal-murdered child into their home” ( Paragraph 95)

PART A: How does Uncle Matt’s reference to Emily’s bow throughout the story develop the theme?

A. It shows how much Uncle Matt cared for Emily as he never goes anywhere without her bows.
B. It shows how Uncle Matt uses various bows to dramatize Emily’s death and demand action from people.
C. It emphasizes how difficult it is to let someone you love go as Uncle Matt tries to keep Emily’s memory alive through her bow.
D. It suggests that Uncle Matt doesn’t truly care about Emily, or her death, as he uses the bows to manipulate people.

PART B: Which TWO details from the text best support the answer to Part A?

A. “I brought it in, threw it down on the table, said: My God my God. / Take a good look at it and also I’m looking at it, said Uncle Matt. And we won’t ever forget it, am I right?” ( Paragraphs 2-3)
B. “And Uncle Matt said: Well, Lawrence, I for one am out here tonight trying to be certain. I think you can understand that.” ( Paragraph 14)
C. “And Uncle Matt produced from his shirt pocket a red bow and said: Father, do you have any idea what this is and where we found it?” ( Paragraph 36)
D. “But it was not the real bow, not Emily’s bow, which I kept all the time in my pocket, it was a pinker shade of red and was a little bigger than the real bow” ( Paragraph 37)
E. “But losing her had, I suppose, made him realize for the first time how much he loved her, and this sudden strength — focus, certainty, whatever — was a comfort, because tell the truth I was not doing well at all” ( Paragraph 45)
F. “and at the top was a photo he’d taken of the red bow (not the real bow but Karen’s pinkish-red bow, which he’d color-enhanced on the iMac to make it redder and also he had superimposed Emily’s Communion photo) and along the bottom it said FIGHT THE OUTRAGE ” ( Paragraph 76)

Which statement describes the narrator’s reaction when Father Terry’s dog is put down against his will in paragraph 89?

A. He is sympathetic but does nothing to stop the dog from being put down.
B. He is indifferent towards Father Terry’s distress and helps put the dog down.
C. He is upset with Father Terry and his reluctance to put down his dog for everyone’s safety.
D. He is ashamed of his actions as he realizes that he has gone too far.

How are the details that the narrator provides about his wife important to the development of the story’s theme (Paragraphs 92-94)?