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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Alabama
(c) Arkansas
(d) Texas

2. What ship that had been sunk at Pearl Harbor does Bill think about as he tries to sleep in the camper in “The Ocean”?
(a) The U.S.S. Ross
(b) The U.S.S. Shaw
(c) The U.S.S. Peters
(d) The U.S.S. Amboy

3. How long has it been since Sandra has mown her yard when her grandmother visits in “Offerings”?
(a) 3 months
(b) 1 month
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 2 weeks

4. According to the narrator in “The Ocean,” “Bill was an expert driver. He knew every road and cow path and Indian trail” where?
(a) West of the Mississippi
(b) East of the Mississippi
(c) In the Jackson Purchase
(d) In the Louisiana Purchase

5. Who is the teenager that Leroy buys weed from in “Shiloh”?
(a) Joe Walters
(b) Stevie Hamilton
(c) Jim Yates
(d) Petey Crittendon

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

2. 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?

3. Who does Carolyn’s dad say had stomach bypass surgery but that “it didn’t work and they had to fix him back like he was” in “Drawing Names”?

4. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?

5. Carolyn works as a sales clerk at what store in “Drawing Names”?

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