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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) Jim
(b) Randy
(c) Robert
(d) Joe

2. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?
(a) Peggy Wilson's
(b) Sharon Belletieri's
(c) Edda Griffin's
(d) Boone Cashon's

3. Where does Mary Lou work periodically to help out with the bills in “The Rookers”?
(a) Bank of America
(b) H & R Block
(c) The post office
(d) The local DMV

4. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?
(a) Kansas
(b) Oklahoma
(c) Texas
(d) Missouri

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Mary Lou and Mack have in “The Rookers”?

2. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?

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

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