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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Detroit Skyline, 1949.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 II
(c) World War I
(d) The Vietnam War

2. In what children’s book does the narrator describe a “picture of a child with his guardian angel hovering over him in "Detroit Skyline, 1949"?
(a) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(b) The Princess and the Pea
(c) Aesop's Fairy Tales
(d) The Curious Rabbit

3. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) 20 inches
(b) 10 inches
(c) 15 inches
(d) 19 inches

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?

2. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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

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