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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Monday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Nancy’s grandmother that’s being put in a nursing home in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) 85
(b) 77
(c) 93
(d) 96

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

3. Where did Louise’s husband buy a cowboy hat before going away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Sam's Surplus
(b) K-Mart
(c) J. C. Penney's
(d) Wal-Mart

4. Where does Mack and Mary Lou’s youngest daughter attend college in “The Rookers”?
(a) Murray State
(b) Michigan State
(c) Brown University
(d) Louisiana State

5. Why does the narrator say she returned to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) Her parents were in poor health
(b) To marry her college professor
(c) Her father passed away and left her his house
(d) Her uncle married a millionaire

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 is the name of the man that Ruby is seeing in “Third Monday”?

3. Where did Waldeen’s ex-husband move after their divorce in “Graveyard Day”?

4. Who is the teenager that Leroy buys weed from in “Shiloh”?

5. Nancy’s grandmother is said to use only what kind of soap on her dishes in “Nancy Culpepper”?

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