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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nancy Culpepper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the narrator know Larry from before she began having an affair with him in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) He owns a bookstore where she shops
(b) He is her dentist
(c) He is her family doctor
(d) He is her mailman

2. How many years does the narrator say Leroy has spent on the road prior to his accident in Shiloh?
(a) 10 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 4 years

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

4. What is Cleo’s last name in “Old Things”?
(a) Williams
(b) Ross
(c) Watkins
(d) Smith

5. What is the last name of Joe, who comes to supper almost every night at Waldeen’s, in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Crittendon
(b) McClain
(c) Peters
(d) Wilson

Short Answer Questions

1. As Louise progresses in her paintings of watermelons in “Still Life with Watermelon,” she begins varying the backgrounds, “and sometimes now she throws in unusual decorative objects—a few candles, a soap dish,” and what?

2. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?

3. How many years does the narrator say she was away “pursuing higher learning” in “Residents and Transients”?

4. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?

5. Who does Mack claim said that “any man who watches more than a hundred and sixty-eight football games in one year ought to be declared legally dead” in “The Rookers”?

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