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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first watermelon that Louise painted in “Still Life with Watermelon” looked “like a dark-green basketball floating on” what?
(a) A longing prairie
(b) An algae-covered pond
(c) A diesel-fueled truck
(d) A sea of purple granite

2. What is the name of Sandra’s estranged husband in “Offerings”?
(a) Peter
(b) Jerry
(c) Jack
(d) Joe

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. What newspaper does Bill read every night in “The Ocean”?
(a) The Democrat-Gazette
(b) The Sun-Democrat
(c) The Chicago Tribune
(d) The New York Times

5. What song keeps going through Nancy’s head while she’s in the hospital after giving birth to Robert in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Sweet Home Alabama
(b) Let It Be
(c) In My Adobe Hacienda
(d) The Black and Muddy River

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?

2. Jack says in “Lying Doggo,” “The only people I ever cared about who died were” what?

3. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?

4. The narrator of “The Climber” says of the former astronaut that his moon visit lasted how long?

5. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?

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