View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lying Doggo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joe has an antique walking stick that belonged to whom in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Robert E. Lee
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

2. Where did the narrator know Larry from before she began having an affair with him in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) He owns a bookstore where she shops
(b) He is her family doctor
(c) He is her dentist
(d) He is her mailman

3. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Louise
(b) Cleo
(c) Peggy Jo
(d) Sarah

4. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?
(a) Granite countertops in the kitchen
(b) Cherry-stained hardwood floors
(c) A yard that needed mowing
(d) Wall-to-wall carpet

5. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?
(a) K-Mart
(b) Kroger's
(c) Piggly Wiggly
(d) J.C. Penney's

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Leroy reminded of as he watches Norma Jean lift weights in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

2. The narrator states in “The Retreat” that when Georgeann married Shelby, her mother warned her about the disadvantages of marrying what?

3. Nancy and Jack have been married almost how long in “Lying Doggo”?

4. How tall is the tulip tree said to be in “The Climber”?

5. How many years does the narrator say she was away “pursuing higher learning” in “Residents and Transients”?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 237 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample