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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from “Graveyard Day” refers to studies or membership within a philosophical secret society said to have been founded in late medieval Germany by Christian Rosenkreuz?
(a) Epicurean
(b) Rosicrucian
(c) Aristotelian
(d) Bourgeois

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

3. Where is Sandra’s grandmother coming to visit from in “Offerings”?
(a) Little Rock
(b) Atlanta
(c) Lubbock
(d) Paducah

4. The narrator says in the beginning of “Offerings” that Sandra’s maternal grandmother died at what age?
(a) 30
(b) 26
(c) 41
(d) 32

5. In what children’s book does the narrator describe a “picture of a child with his guardian angel hovering over him in "Detroit Skyline, 1949"?
(a) Aesop's Fairy Tales
(b) The Curious Rabbit
(c) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(d) The Princess and the Pea

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Nancy’s history professor that attends her wedding in “Nancy Culpepper”?

2. How old was Sandra’s mother when Sandra’s maternal grandmother died in “Offerings”?

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

4. How is the preacher’s jacket described in “The Climber”?

5. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?

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