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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator’s aunt in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that she and her mother went to visit in Detroit when she was young?
(a) Peggy Wilson
(b) Louise Milsap
(c) Mozelle Cashon
(d) Rita Jean Wiggins

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

3. Who is Leroy reminded of as he watches Norma Jean lift weights in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) Wonder Woman
(b) Marilyn Monroe
(c) Batgirl
(d) Mighty Mouse

4. Who is the girl that the narrator’s aunt invites to spend the day with the narrator during her visit in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Sabrina Jones
(b) Sharon Belletieri
(c) Betsy Lou
(d) Georgeann

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

6. 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

7. Rita Jean is worried sick about her cat named what in “Old Things”?
(a) Fluffy
(b) Dexter
(c) Pretty Tail
(d) Maxwell

8. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?
(a) 37
(b) 42
(c) 60
(d) 26

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

10. 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

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

12. What weight dumbbells does Norma Jean lift to warm up in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) 1 lb.
(b) 3 lb.
(c) 2 lb.
(d) 5 lb.

13. How long ago did Leroy injure his leg in a highway accident in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) 4 months ago
(b) 2 months ago
(c) 3 years ago
(d) 2 weeks ago

14. How long ago was Carolyn divorced in “Drawing Names”?
(a) 6 years ago
(b) 1 year ago
(c) 2 years ago
(d) 10 years ago

15. What kind of cigarettes does the narrators say her uncle smoked in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Kents
(b) Marlboros
(c) Old Golds
(d) Camels

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose granddaughter in “The Rookers” is said to have an ovary infection?

2. What is the last name of Rita Jean in “Old Things”?

3. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

4. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?

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

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