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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carolyn’s mother tells her they’re having what for Christmas dinner instead of turkey in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Chinese takeout
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Boiled liver
(d) Baked ham

2. Where do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?
(a) Alabama
(b) Kentucky
(c) Arkansas
(d) Texas

3. What is Carolyn’s last name in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Sisson
(b) Walters
(c) Turnbow
(d) Stamper

4. Where does Mary Lou work periodically to help out with the bills in “The Rookers”?
(a) H & R Block
(b) The post office
(c) Bank of America
(d) The local DMV

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

Short Answer 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?

2. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?

3. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?

4. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?

5. The first watermelon that Louise painted in “Still Life with Watermelon” looked “like a dark-green basketball floating on” what?

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