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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Red apple trees
(c) Daisies
(d) Purple irises

2. Dolores’s friend is said to have gone to a dude ranch where when an earthquake was predicted for western Kentucky in “The Climber”?
(a) Arkansas
(b) Maine
(c) California
(d) Arizona

3. The narrator of “The Climber” says of the former astronaut that his moon visit lasted how long?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 3 weeks
(c) 3 days
(d) 5 days

4. What kind of truck does Larry drive in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) A blue Ford Ranger
(b) A yellow Jeep Cherokee
(c) An orange Ford Bronco
(d) A red Mazda convertible

5. 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”?
(a) Emma Bombeck
(b) Emily Post
(c) Wilson Walters
(d) Sally Struthers

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?

2. What do the initials “R.J.W.” stand for in “Old Things”?

3. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?

4. The narrator of “Residents and Transients” says that “there are a few here who think” what place “in Louisville would be the grandest place in the world to be”?

5. Where does Mary Lou work periodically to help out with the bills in “The Rookers”?

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