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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The women that come over to play Rook with Mary Lou in “The Rookers” are all what?
(a) Schoolteachers
(b) Having secret affairs
(c) Widows
(d) Policewomen

3. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?
(a) Parkinson's Disease
(b) Brain cancer
(c) Lung cancer
(d) Cirrhosis of the liver

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

5. Where does Mack and Mary Lou’s youngest daughter attend college in “The Rookers”?
(a) Michigan State
(b) Murray State
(c) Brown University
(d) Louisiana State

Short Answer 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?

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”?

3. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?

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

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

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