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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors are the cheerleader outfits that Cleo is sewing in “Old Things”?
(a) Red and blue
(b) White and yellow
(c) Red and gray
(d) Purple and gold

2. The narrator says in “Residents and Transients,” “I complained for weeks about living with houses in view. I need” what?
(a) Cornfields
(b) Cotton fields
(c) Rice fields
(d) Mountains

3. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?
(a) Mary
(b) Tammy
(c) Julia
(d) Linda

4. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?
(a) 60
(b) 42
(c) 37
(d) 26

5. How long has it been since Sandra has mown her yard when her grandmother visits in “Offerings”?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 1 month
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 3 months

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sandra’s estranged husband in “Offerings”?

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?

3. How is the preacher’s jacket described in “The Climber”?

4. Who does Mack claim said that “any man who watches more than a hundred and sixty-eight football games in one year ought to be declared legally dead” in “The Rookers”?

5. The women that come over to play Rook with Mary Lou in “The Rookers” are all what?

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