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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Korean War
(b) World War II
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) World War I

2. Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon” is currently where?
(a) Texas
(b) Mississippi
(c) Arkansas
(d) Oklahoma

3. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Louise
(b) Sarah
(c) Peggy Jo
(d) Cleo

4. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Arkansas
(c) Alabama
(d) Texas

5. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?
(a) Piggly Wiggly
(b) K-Mart
(c) Kroger's
(d) J.C. Penney's

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?

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. As Louise progresses in her paintings of watermelons in “Still Life with Watermelon,” she begins varying the backgrounds, “and sometimes now she throws in unusual decorative objects—a few candles, a soap dish,” and what?

4. What kind of store does the narrator of “Offerings” say Joe Stamper owned and ran?

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

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