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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Leroy’s last name in “Shiloh”?
(a) Cashon
(b) Wilson
(c) Moffitt
(d) Skaggs

2. 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) World War I
(d) The Korean War

3. Who is Leroy reminded of as he watches Norma Jean lift weights in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) Mighty Mouse
(b) Marilyn Monroe
(c) Wonder Woman
(d) Batgirl

4. What was the name of Leroy and Norma Jean’s baby that died in “Shiloh”?
(a) Joe
(b) Randy
(c) Robert
(d) Jim

5. When the narrator and her mother departed for Detroit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949,” the narrator’s father told them “Don’t let” what “get you”?
(a) The Irish
(b) The Polacks
(c) The police
(d) The train conductors

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

3. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

4. What is the name of the narrator’s brother in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that is 2 when she visits Detroit with her mother?

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

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