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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Rita Jean is worried sick about her cat named what in “Old Things”?
(a) Maxwell
(b) Fluffy
(c) Pretty Tail
(d) Dexter

4. The narrator says in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that when she was young she lived “not far from the U.S. highway that took so many Southerners northward to work in the auto industry just after” what war?
(a) World War I
(b) World War II
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) The Korean War

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the girl that the narrator’s aunt invites to spend the day with the narrator during her visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

3. 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”?

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

5. What is the name of Cleo’s grandson that is staying with her in “Old Things”?

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