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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 do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?
(a) Texas
(b) Arkansas
(c) Kentucky
(d) Alabama

2. Peggy tells Louise in “Still Life with Watermelon” that what rich collector will buy her pictures of watermelons?
(a) Joe Murdock
(b) Herman Priddle
(c) Jack Cleveland
(d) Edwin Creech

3. What kind of instrument does the narrator say Leroy gave Norma Jean for Christmas in “Shiloh”?
(a) A drum set
(b) A flute
(c) An electric organ
(d) A saxophone

4. 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) The Korean War
(b) World War I
(c) World War II
(d) The Vietnam War

5. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?
(a) Cirrhosis of the liver
(b) Parkinson's Disease
(c) Brain cancer
(d) Lung cancer

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?

2. Louise has lost her job where in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

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

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

5. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?

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