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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the preacher’s jacket described in “The Climber”?
(a) Purple and gold
(b) Yellow striped
(c) Pink plaid
(d) Blue plaid

3. Rita Jean is worried sick about her cat named what in “Old Things”?
(a) Pretty Tail
(b) Maxwell
(c) Fluffy
(d) Dexter

4. 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) Mutant jimsonweeds
(b) Daisies
(c) Red apple trees
(d) Purple irises

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?

2. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?

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

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

5. Why does the narrator say she returned to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?

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