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

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

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

4. What is the name of the narrator’s brother in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that is 2 when she visits Detroit with her mother?
(a) Phillip
(b) Andrew
(c) Johnny
(d) Petey

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?

2. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

3. 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?

4. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?

5. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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