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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Mack refurbished an old church pew into a dinette booth for some neighbors in “The Rookers,” the sanding took days and Mack claimed, “I’m sanding off layers of” what?
(a) Sermons
(b) Belief
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) Greed

3. The narrator’s mother in “Residents and Transients” tells her that what “brings on cancer”?
(a) Hypocrisy
(b) Heartbreak
(c) Anger
(d) Bad food

4. How many years does the narrator say she was away “pursuing higher learning” in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) 8 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 3 years

5. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?
(a) Belletieri
(b) Wilson
(c) Cashon
(d) Skaggs

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?

2. What newscaster does Cleo watch as she listens to Rita Jean on the phone in the beginning of “Old Things”?

3. What is the name of Cleo’s grandson that is staying with her in “Old Things”?

4. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?

5. Where did the narrator know Larry from before she began having an affair with him in “Residents and Transients”?

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