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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who urged Dolores to see a doctor about her condition in “The Climber”?
(a) Jerry Wilson
(b) Mary Sue
(c) Dusty Bivens
(d) Louise Milsap

2. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?
(a) Funerals
(b) Death
(c) Church
(d) Diseases

3. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?
(a) 42
(b) 37
(c) 26
(d) 60

4. 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?
(a) Daisies
(b) Purple irises
(c) Red apple trees
(d) Mutant jimsonweeds

5. What newscaster does Cleo watch as she listens to Rita Jean on the phone in the beginning of “Old Things”?
(a) Peter Jennings
(b) Tom Brokaw
(c) Alex Jones
(d) Barbara Walters

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Louise’s husband buy a cowboy hat before going away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

2. How long has it been since Sandra has mown her yard when her grandmother visits in “Offerings”?

3. Kent is a part-time student at what college in “Drawing Names”?

4. What is Louise’s last name in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

5. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?

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