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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Offerings.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) The newspaper forecast
(b) His astrological charts
(c) The Old Farmer's Almanac
(d) The nightly news weather forecast

3. How long has it been since Sandra has mown her yard when her grandmother visits in “Offerings”?
(a) 3 months
(b) 1 month
(c) 2 weeks
(d) 3 weeks

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

5. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Hair
(b) There
(c) Walk
(d) Here

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in the beginning of “Offerings” that Sandra’s maternal grandmother died at what age?

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

3. The narrator of “Offerings” says Sandra “grows vegetables and counts her” what?

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

5. What is the name of the narrator’s aunt in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that she and her mother went to visit in Detroit when she was young?

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