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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Ocean.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) The Princess and the Pea
(b) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(c) Aesop's Fairy Tales
(d) The Curious Rabbit

2. Louise has lost her job where in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) J. C. Penney's
(b) K-Mart
(c) Kroger's
(d) Billy's Ford Dealership

3. What word from “Still Life with Watermelon” refers to a horn containing food, drink, etc. in endless supply?
(a) Columbine
(b) Cornucopia
(c) Utopia
(d) Menagerie

4. What newspaper does Bill read every night in “The Ocean”?
(a) The Sun-Democrat
(b) The Democrat-Gazette
(c) The Chicago Tribune
(d) The New York Times

5. 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”?
(a) 14
(b) 12
(c) 7
(d) 9

Short Answer Questions

1. Of her parents’ farmhouse, the narrator of “Residents and Transients” says, “I love its stateliness, the way it rises up from the fields like a patch of” what?

2. 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?

3. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

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

5. Why does the narrator say she returned to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?

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