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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 is her family doctor
(b) He owns a bookstore where she shops
(c) He is her dentist
(d) He is her mailman

2. 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?
(a) A pair of sewing scissors
(b) A plate of olives
(c) A hairdryer
(d) A pair of wire pliers

3. How long ago did Leroy injure his leg in a highway accident in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) 2 weeks ago
(b) 2 months ago
(c) 4 months ago
(d) 3 years ago

4. Who does Imogene say “had a hurtin’ like this and come to find out she had kidney disease” in “The Ocean”?
(a) Mary
(b) Gladys
(c) Dolores
(d) Carolyn

5. The narrator of “The Climber” says of the former astronaut that his moon visit lasted how long?
(a) 5 days
(b) 2 weeks
(c) 3 days
(d) 3 weeks

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Old Things,” Linda believes that it’s awful that Cleo has gotten rid of every reminder of whom?

3. 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?

4. What kind of business does Nancy’s husband run in “Nancy Culpepper”?

5. When Georgeann began dating Shelby in high school, she was impressed that he had spent a month studying whose life in “The Retreat”?

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