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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. What is Leroy’s last name in “Shiloh”?
(a) Skaggs
(b) Moffitt
(c) Cashon
(d) Wilson

2. The narrator says in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that when she was young she lived “not far from the U.S. highway that took so many Southerners northward to work in the auto industry just after” what war?
(a) World War II
(b) The Korean War
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) World War I

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

4. What is the name of the uncle that the narrator and her mother visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Kent Ballard
(b) Jim Yates
(c) Bob Turnbow
(d) Boone Cashon

5. Who is the girl that the narrator’s aunt invites to spend the day with the narrator during her visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Sabrina Jones
(b) Sharon Belletieri
(c) Betsy Lou
(d) Georgeann

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?

2. 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”?

3. 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?

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

5. What word from “Still Life with Watermelon” refers to a horn containing food, drink, etc. in endless supply?

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