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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) Belief
(b) Greed
(c) Sermons
(d) Hypocrisy

4. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?
(a) Granite countertops in the kitchen
(b) Cherry-stained hardwood floors
(c) Wall-to-wall carpet
(d) A yard that needed mowing

5. What do the initials “R.J.W.” stand for in “Old Things”?
(a) Robert Jacob Watkins
(b) Robert James Wilson
(c) Richard Johnson Wilson
(d) Richard James Wilson

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?

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

4. Peggy tells Louise in “Still Life with Watermelon” that what rich collector will buy her pictures of watermelons?

5. What is the name of the narrator’s aunt in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that she and her mother went to visit in Detroit when she was young?

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