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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who’s car does Cleo say is “here all the time” in “Old Things”?
(a) Louise's
(b) Waldeen's
(c) Linda's
(d) Dolores's

2. Who is Louise’s husband with while he’s away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Rita Jean Wiggins
(b) Jim Yates
(c) Jack Cleveland
(d) Carolyn Sisson

3. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) She’s left-handed.
(b) She’s using the wrong weights.
(c) She’s got too much body fat.
(d) She’s right-handed.

4. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) 20 inches
(b) 15 inches
(c) 19 inches
(d) 10 inches

5. 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 train conductors
(c) The police
(d) The Polacks

Short Answer Questions

1. Rita Jean is worried sick about her cat named what in “Old Things”?

2. 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?

3. In what children’s book does the narrator describe a “picture of a child with his guardian angel hovering over him in "Detroit Skyline, 1949"?

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

5. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

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