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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?
(a) Mary
(b) Tammy
(c) Linda
(d) Julia

2. What kind of store does the narrator of “Offerings” say Joe Stamper owned and ran?
(a) A shoe store
(b) A book store
(c) A coffee shop
(d) A candy store

3. When the narrator and her mother departed for Detroit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949,” the narrator’s father told them “Don’t let” what “get you”?
(a) The train conductors
(b) The police
(c) The Irish
(d) The Polacks

4. What is the name of Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Tom
(b) Jack
(c) Peter
(d) Paul

5. Who is the narrator in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Cleo
(b) Sarah
(c) Louise
(d) Peggy Jo

6. Where do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?
(a) Arkansas
(b) Kentucky
(c) Texas
(d) Alabama

7. The women that come over to play Rook with Mary Lou in “The Rookers” are all what?
(a) Policewomen
(b) Having secret affairs
(c) Widows
(d) Schoolteachers

8. What is the name of the narrator’s brother in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that is 2 when she visits Detroit with her mother?
(a) Johnny
(b) Andrew
(c) Petey
(d) Phillip

9. 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

10. Carolyn’s mother tells her they’re having what for Christmas dinner instead of turkey in “Drawing Names”?
(a) Chinese takeout
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Baked ham
(d) Boiled liver

11. Sandra’s mother never told Sandra’s paternal grandmother about having what surgery in “Offerings”?
(a) A splenectomy
(b) A tonsillectomy
(c) A leg amputation
(d) A hysterectomy

12. What kind of instrument does the narrator say Leroy gave Norma Jean for Christmas in “Shiloh”?
(a) A saxophone
(b) A drum set
(c) A flute
(d) An electric organ

13. 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) World War II
(b) World War I
(c) The Korean War
(d) The Vietnam War

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

15. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) She’s got too much body fat.
(b) She’s right-handed.
(c) She’s left-handed.
(d) She’s using the wrong weights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Petey described as in “The Climber”?

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?

3. Louise has lost her job where in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

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

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

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