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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. 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) Wilson Walters
(b) Sally Struthers
(c) Emma Bombeck
(d) Emily Post

2. The first watermelon that Louise painted in “Still Life with Watermelon” looked “like a dark-green basketball floating on” what?
(a) A sea of purple granite
(b) An algae-covered pond
(c) A longing prairie
(d) A diesel-fueled truck

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

4. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Kents
(b) Old Golds
(c) Marlboros
(d) Camels

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the narrator’s aunt in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that she and her mother went to visit in Detroit when she was young?

3. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?

4. 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?

5. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?

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