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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) She’s using the wrong weights.
(b) She’s left-handed.
(c) She’s got too much body fat.
(d) She’s right-handed.

2. Who is the teenager that Leroy buys weed from in “Shiloh”?
(a) Joe Walters
(b) Jim Yates
(c) Stevie Hamilton
(d) Petey Crittendon

3. 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) The Princess and the Pea
(b) The Curious Rabbit
(c) Aesop's Fairy Tales
(d) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories

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

5. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?
(a) Funerals
(b) Church
(c) Diseases
(d) Death

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” lately Mack has become obsessed with the weather and likes to compare it to the predictions from where?

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

3. How many years does the narrator say Leroy has spent on the road prior to his accident in Shiloh?

4. Where does Mack and Mary Lou’s youngest daughter attend college in “The Rookers”?

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

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