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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) 14
(b) 9
(c) 12
(d) 7

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

4. The narrator of “Offerings” says Sandra “grows vegetables and counts her” what?
(a) Blessings
(b) Boyfriends
(c) Cats
(d) Dogs

5. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?
(a) Childbed Fever
(b) A brain aneurism
(c) Lung cancer
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

2. Where is Sandra’s grandmother coming to visit from in “Offerings”?

3. 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?

4. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?

5. What kind of instrument does the narrator say Leroy gave Norma Jean for Christmas in “Shiloh”?

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