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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the names of Mamaw's younger sisters?
(a) Jenna and Opal.
(b) Marie and Anna.
(c) Betty and Rose.
(d) Sarah and Anne.

2. When did Vance's grandparents (Mamaw and Papaw) marry?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1947.

3. How old was Vance when Uncle Teaberry died?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. How many bedrooms were in Mamaw Blanton's house, according to Vance in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. Vance notes in his Introduction that William Julius Wilson, Charles Murray, and others have authored tracts demonstrating that upward mobility fell of in what decade in the U.S.?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Vance's birthday?

2. When was the merger between Armco Steel and Kawasaki?

3. How old does Vance claim to be in the memoir's Introduction?

4. Who among his mother's love interests does Vance describe as a mid-life sufferer with an earring to prove it in Chapter 1?

5. What family operated a large paper mill in Middletown dating back to the nineteenth century?

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