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

2. How old does the narrator say she was when her mother took her on a long journey North to see the tall buildings of Detroit in the beginning of “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) 12
(b) 7
(c) 9
(d) 14

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”?
(a) She’s using the wrong weights.
(b) She’s got too much body fat.
(c) She’s left-handed.
(d) She’s right-handed.

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

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”?
(a) Emily Post
(b) Wilson Walters
(c) Sally Struthers
(d) Emma Bombeck

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?

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

3. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?

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?

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

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