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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 II
(b) The Korean War
(c) World War I
(d) The Vietnam War

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

3. What is the name of Sandra’s grandfather that died in “Offerings”?
(a) Joe Stamper
(b) Bob Turnbow
(c) Kent Ballard
(d) Joe Murdock

4. Peggy tells Louise in “Still Life with Watermelon” that what rich collector will buy her pictures of watermelons?
(a) Herman Priddle
(b) Jack Cleveland
(c) Joe Murdock
(d) Edwin Creech

5. According to the narrator of “The Climber,” “Dolores has the Christian channel on only for the” what?
(a) Sermons
(b) Noise
(c) Preaching
(d) Music

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Dolores have in “The Climber”?

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

3. The first watermelon that Louise painted in “Still Life with Watermelon” looked “like a dark-green basketball floating on” what?

4. How long ago did Leroy injure his leg in a highway accident in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

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

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