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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?
(a) Church
(b) Diseases
(c) Death
(d) Funerals

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

3. Who is the teenager that Leroy buys weed from in “Shiloh”?
(a) Stevie Hamilton
(b) Joe Walters
(c) Jim Yates
(d) Petey Crittendon

4. What is the name of the uncle that the narrator and her mother visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Bob Turnbow
(b) Jim Yates
(c) Boone Cashon
(d) Kent Ballard

5. Who is Leroy reminded of as he watches Norma Jean lift weights in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) Batgirl
(b) Wonder Woman
(c) Mighty Mouse
(d) Marilyn Monroe

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?

2. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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

4. 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”?

5. What is the name of Sandra’s estranged husband in “Offerings”?

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