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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mary Lou work periodically to help out with the bills in “The Rookers”?
(a) H & R Block
(b) The post office
(c) The local DMV
(d) Bank of America

2. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?
(a) A tonsillectomy
(b) A hysterectomy
(c) A splenectomy
(d) A leg amputation

3. When the narrator and her mother departed for Detroit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949,” the narrator’s father told them “Don’t let” what “get you”?
(a) The police
(b) The Irish
(c) The train conductors
(d) The Polacks

4. How many children do Mary Lou and Mack have in “The Rookers”?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 5

5. What is Leroy’s last name in “Shiloh”?
(a) Moffitt
(b) Wilson
(c) Skaggs
(d) Cashon

Short Answer Questions

1. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

2. What was the name of Leroy and Norma Jean’s baby that died in “Shiloh”?

3. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?

4. Who is the girl that the narrator’s aunt invites to spend the day with the narrator during her visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

5. The narrator says in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that when she was young she lived “not far from the U.S. highway that took so many Southerners northward to work in the auto industry just after” what war?

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