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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall is the tulip tree said to be in “The Climber”?
(a) 30 feet
(b) 80 feet
(c) 70 feet
(d) 100 feet

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

3. Carolyn’s mother tells her they’re having what for Christmas dinner instead of turkey in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Baked ham
(b) Chinese takeout
(c) Boiled liver
(d) Fried chicken

4. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Louise
(b) Peggy Jo
(c) Sarah
(d) Cleo

5. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) There
(b) Hair
(c) Here
(d) Walk

Short Answer Questions

1. Joe has an antique walking stick that belonged to whom in “Graveyard Day”?

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

3. How old is Joe when he comes to dinner at Waldeen’s in “Graveyard Day”?

4. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?

5. When Georgeann first knew Shelby in high school, Shelby was on probation for stealing four cases of cola and a ham from where in “The Retreat”?

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