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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of store does the narrator of “Offerings” say Joe Stamper owned and ran?
(a) A shoe store
(b) A book store
(c) A candy store
(d) A coffee shop

2. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Camels
(b) Old Golds
(c) Marlboros
(d) Kents

3. 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?
(a) Rita Jean Wiggins
(b) Peggy Wilson
(c) Mozelle Cashon
(d) Louise Milsap

4. Who is Louise’s husband with while he’s away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Rita Jean Wiggins
(b) Jim Yates
(c) Jack Cleveland
(d) Carolyn Sisson

5. How long ago was Carolyn divorced in “Drawing Names”?
(a) 6 years ago
(b) 10 years ago
(c) 1 year ago
(d) 2 years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. What band does the narrator say Georgeann put on to try to teach Shelby to dance prior to the prom in “The Retreat”?

2. What is the narrator’s husband’s name in “Residents and Transients”?

3. Where has the narrator’s husband gone away to work in “Residents and Transients”?

4. 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?

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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