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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?
(a) K-Mart
(b) Kroger's
(c) Piggly Wiggly
(d) J.C. Penney's

3. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?
(a) Vampire
(b) Leader
(c) Zombie
(d) Savior

4. 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 Polacks
(b) The police
(c) The Irish
(d) The train conductors

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

6. What is the name of Cleo’s grandson that is staying with her in “Old Things”?
(a) Petey
(b) James
(c) Michael
(d) Davey

7. What did Mack make for Mary Lou for their twenty-fifth anniversary from scrap pine in “The Rookers”?
(a) A bookshelf
(b) A dinner table
(c) A card table
(d) A coffee table

8. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?
(a) Sharon Belletieri's
(b) Peggy Wilson's
(c) Boone Cashon's
(d) Edda Griffin's

9. What is the last name of Rita Jean in “Old Things”?
(a) Wiggins
(b) Ballard
(c) Johnson
(d) Smith

10. 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) Peewee McClain
(b) Jack Cleveland
(c) Bill Crittendon
(d) Jim Yates

11. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?
(a) Church
(b) Diseases
(c) Death
(d) Funerals

12. What word from “Still Life with Watermelon” refers to a horn containing food, drink, etc. in endless supply?
(a) Cornucopia
(b) Menagerie
(c) Utopia
(d) Columbine

13. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?
(a) Rexall Drugstore
(b) K-Mart
(c) Waffle House
(d) J. C. Penney's

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

2. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?

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

4. Kent drives a truck for what company in “Drawing Names”?

5. Who is Louise’s husband with while he’s away in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

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