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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How tall is the tulip tree said to be in “The Climber”?
(a) 100 feet
(b) 30 feet
(c) 70 feet
(d) 80 feet
2. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” lately Mack has become obsessed with the weather and likes to compare it to the predictions from where?
(a) The Old Farmer's Almanac
(b) The nightly news weather forecast
(c) His astrological charts
(d) The newspaper forecast
3. Where is Sandra’s grandmother coming to visit from in “Offerings”?
(a) Paducah
(b) Atlanta
(c) Lubbock
(d) Little Rock
4. Who does Carolyn’s dad say had stomach bypass surgery but that “it didn’t work and they had to fix him back like he was” in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Jack Cleveland
(b) Peewee McClain
(c) Jim Yates
(d) Bill Crittendon
5. According to the narrator of “The Climber,” “Dolores has the Christian channel on only for the” what?
(a) Music
(b) Preaching
(c) Noise
(d) Sermons
6. What word from “Still Life with Watermelon” refers to a horn containing food, drink, etc. in endless supply?
(a) Menagerie
(b) Columbine
(c) Utopia
(d) Cornucopia
7. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?
(a) Missouri
(b) Kansas
(c) Oklahoma
(d) Texas
8. Who urged Dolores to see a doctor about her condition in “The Climber”?
(a) Louise Milsap
(b) Mary Sue
(c) Jerry Wilson
(d) Dusty Bivens
9. The narrator says in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that when she was young she lived “not far from the U.S. highway that took so many Southerners northward to work in the auto industry just after” what war?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) World War I
(c) World War II
(d) The Korean War
10. How many years does the narrator say Leroy has spent on the road prior to his accident in Shiloh?
(a) 4 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 15 years
11. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Cleo
(b) Louise
(c) Sarah
(d) Peggy Jo
12. Where did Louise’s husband buy a cowboy hat before going away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) K-Mart
(b) Sam's Surplus
(c) Wal-Mart
(d) J. C. Penney's
13. 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) Emily Post
(c) Emma Bombeck
(d) Wilson Walters
14. What kind of instrument does the narrator say Leroy gave Norma Jean for Christmas in “Shiloh”?
(a) A saxophone
(b) A drum set
(c) An electric organ
(d) A flute
15. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?
(a) Sharon Belletieri's
(b) Edda Griffin's
(c) Boone Cashon's
(d) Peggy Wilson's
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?
2. What do the initials “R.J.W.” stand for in “Old Things”?
3. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?
4. Who is Louise’s husband with while he’s away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
5. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?
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