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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Still Life with Watermelon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?
(a) Kansas
(b) Missouri
(c) Oklahoma
(d) Texas

2. How many years does the narrator say Leroy has spent on the road prior to his accident in Shiloh?
(a) 4 years
(b) 20 years
(c) 15 years
(d) 10 years

3. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?
(a) A bookshelf
(b) A dinner table
(c) A coffee table
(d) A card table

4. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” lately Mack has become obsessed with the weather and likes to compare it to the predictions from where?
(a) The nightly news weather forecast
(b) The newspaper forecast
(c) The Old Farmer's Almanac
(d) His astrological charts

5. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?
(a) J. C. Penney's
(b) Rexall Drugstore
(c) K-Mart
(d) Waffle House

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sandra’s grandmother coming to visit from in “Offerings”?

2. Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon” is currently where?

3. Where do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?

4. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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

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