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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mary Lou work periodically to help out with the bills in “The Rookers”?
(a) H & R Block
(b) The local DMV
(c) The post office
(d) Bank of America

2. Where does Shelby take Georgeann to eat on the night of their senior prom in “The Retreat”?
(a) Kentucky Fried Chicken
(b) Burger King
(c) McDonald's
(d) The Wal-Mart snack bar

3. Who urged Dolores to see a doctor about her condition in “The Climber”?
(a) Jerry Wilson
(b) Dusty Bivens
(c) Mary Sue
(d) Louise Milsap

4. What did the man Ruby’s dating try to sell her when they first met in “Third Monday”?
(a) A ring
(b) A hunting dog
(c) A coffee table
(d) A stuffed animal

5. Who does Mack claim said that “any man who watches more than a hundred and sixty-eight football games in one year ought to be declared legally dead” in “The Rookers”?
(a) Sally Struthers
(b) Wilson Walters
(c) Emma Bombeck
(d) Emily Post

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Louise’s husband buy a cowboy hat before going away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

2. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?

3. 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?

4. What is Louise’s last name in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

5. What is the name of the health center Edwin is transporting a group of mentally retarded adults to in order to attend training in “A New-Wave Format”?

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