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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) Maxwell
(b) Fluffy
(c) Dexter
(d) Pretty Tail

2. 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 Korean War
(d) The Vietnam War

3. Carolyn works as a sales clerk at what store in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Macy's
(b) Wal-Mart
(c) J.C. Penney's
(d) K-Mart

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

5. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?
(a) Julia
(b) Mary
(c) Tammy
(d) Linda

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Old Things,” Linda believes that it’s awful that Cleo has gotten rid of every reminder of whom?

2. What weight dumbbells does Norma Jean lift to warm up in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

3. What colors are the cheerleader outfits that Cleo is sewing in “Old Things”?

4. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?

5. In what children’s book does the narrator describe a “picture of a child with his guardian angel hovering over him in "Detroit Skyline, 1949"?

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