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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What weight dumbbells does Norma Jean lift to warm up in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) 1 lb.
(b) 5 lb.
(c) 3 lb.
(d) 2 lb.

3. What colors are the cheerleader outfits that Cleo is sewing in “Old Things”?
(a) Red and blue
(b) White and yellow
(c) Red and gray
(d) Purple and gold

4. 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?
(a) A pair of sewing scissors
(b) A hairdryer
(c) A pair of wire pliers
(d) A plate of olives

5. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?
(a) A dinner table
(b) A coffee table
(c) A card table
(d) A bookshelf

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “Still Life with Watermelon” refers to a horn containing food, drink, etc. in endless supply?

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

3. 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?

4. What is Carolyn’s last name in “Drawing Names”?

5. What is the name of Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

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