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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Belief
(b) Sermons
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) Greed

2. 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 right-handed.
(d) She’s got too much body fat.

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) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(c) The Curious Rabbit
(d) Aesop's Fairy Tales

4. 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 Polacks
(b) The Irish
(c) The train conductors
(d) The police

5. 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) Petey
(c) Johnny
(d) Andrew

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

3. 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?

4. What weight dumbbells does Norma Jean lift to warm up in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

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

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