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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?
(a) Kansas
(b) Missouri
(c) Texas
(d) Oklahoma

2. How much money does Bill have in his wallet as he drives to Florida in “The Ocean”?
(a) $1,500
(b) $500
(c) $1,000
(d) $750

3. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?
(a) Lung cancer
(b) Childbed Fever
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) A brain aneurism

4. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?
(a) A splenectomy
(b) A leg amputation
(c) A tonsillectomy
(d) A hysterectomy

5. What is the last name of Rita Jean in “Old Things”?
(a) Ballard
(b) Johnson
(c) Wiggins
(d) Smith

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of “Offerings” says Sandra “grows vegetables and counts her” what?

2. According to the narrator of “The Climber,” “Dolores has the Christian channel on only for the” what?

3. How long ago does the narrator say she came back to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?

4. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

5. The narrator of “The Climber” says of the former astronaut that his moon visit lasted how long?

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