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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are expected for Christmas dinner in “Drawing Names”?
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 22
(d) 16

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

3. Dolores’s friend is said to have gone to a dude ranch where when an earthquake was predicted for western Kentucky in “The Climber”?
(a) California
(b) Maine
(c) Arkansas
(d) Arizona

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

5. Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon” is currently where?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Arkansas
(c) Oklahoma
(d) Texas

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

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

8. 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

9. 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) Petey
(c) Phillip
(d) Andrew

10. 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) Betsy Lou
(b) Sabrina Jones
(c) Sharon Belletieri
(d) Georgeann

11. What did Sandra’s maternal grandmother die from in “Offerings”?
(a) Lung cancer
(b) Childbed Fever
(c) A brain aneurism
(d) Tuberculosis

12. The narrator of “Offerings” says Sandra “grows vegetables and counts her” what?
(a) Dogs
(b) Cats
(c) Boyfriends
(d) Blessings

13. Dolores has an appointment with a gynecologist to see about what, in “The Climber”?
(a) An abnormal pap smear
(b) A new birth control option
(c) A sonogram
(d) A lump in her breast

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon”?

2. How old does the narrator say she was when her mother took her on a long journey North to see the tall buildings of Detroit in the beginning of “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

3. The first watermelon that Louise painted in “Still Life with Watermelon” looked “like a dark-green basketball floating on” what?

4. Carolyn’s mother tells her they’re having what for Christmas dinner instead of turkey in “Drawing Names”?

5. What colors are the cheerleader outfits that Cleo is sewing in “Old Things”?

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