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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Residents and Transients.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dolores’s friend is said to have gone to a dude ranch where when an earthquake was predicted for western Kentucky in “The Climber”?
(a) Maine
(b) California
(c) Arizona
(d) Arkansas

2. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?
(a) Peggy Wilson's
(b) Boone Cashon's
(c) Sharon Belletieri's
(d) Edda Griffin's

3. Where has the narrator’s husband gone away to work in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi
(b) Birmingham, Alabama
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas
(d) Louisville, Kentucky

4. Where does Mack and Mary Lou’s youngest daughter attend college in “The Rookers”?
(a) Louisiana State
(b) Murray State
(c) Brown University
(d) Michigan State

5. Of her parents’ farmhouse, the narrator of “Residents and Transients” says, “I love its stateliness, the way it rises up from the fields like a patch of” what?
(a) Daisies
(b) Mutant jimsonweeds
(c) Purple irises
(d) Red apple trees

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?

2. Who’s car does Cleo say is “here all the time” in “Old Things”?

3. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” lately Mack has become obsessed with the weather and likes to compare it to the predictions from where?

4. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?

5. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?

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