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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. As Louise progresses in her paintings of watermelons in “Still Life with Watermelon,” she begins varying the backgrounds, “and sometimes now she throws in unusual decorative objects—a few candles, a soap dish,” and what?
(a) A hairdryer
(b) A pair of sewing scissors
(c) A plate of olives
(d) A pair of wire pliers

2. The narrator of “Offerings” says Sandra “grows vegetables and counts her” what?
(a) Cats
(b) Dogs
(c) Boyfriends
(d) Blessings

3. What is Louise’s last name in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Turnbow
(b) Wilson
(c) Milsap
(d) Yates

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children do Mary Lou and Mack have in “The Rookers”?

3. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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?

5. Peggy tells Louise in “Still Life with Watermelon” that what rich collector will buy her pictures of watermelons?

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