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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Cleo’s last name in “Old Things”?
(a) Watkins
(b) Smith
(c) Williams
(d) Ross

3. The narrator says in the beginning of “Offerings” that Sandra’s maternal grandmother died at what age?
(a) 32
(b) 30
(c) 41
(d) 26

4. In what state do Mary Lou and her husband Mack live in “The Rookers”?
(a) Arkansas
(b) Texas
(c) Kentucky
(d) Alabama

5. How tall is the tulip tree said to be in “The Climber”?
(a) 100 feet
(b) 30 feet
(c) 70 feet
(d) 80 feet

Short Answer Questions

1. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?

2. When Mack refurbished an old church pew into a dinette booth for some neighbors in “The Rookers,” the sanding took days and Mack claimed, “I’m sanding off layers of” what?

3. Kent is planning to drive over for Christmas dinner from where by noon in “Drawing Names”?

4. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?

5. What is the name of Sandra’s estranged husband in “Offerings”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Linda respond when Cleo implies she’s old by saying “I’m not sixteen anymore” in “Old Things”?

2. How are the central characters in “The Rookers” similar to the central characters in “Shiloh”?

3. How is Petey’s character described in “The Climber”?

4. What memento does Cleo find at the end of “Old Things”? What does this make her think of?

5. What constitutes the basic plot line of “Shiloh”? What is the story essentially about?

6. How is Sandra’s mother’s relationship with Grandmother Stamper described in “Offerings”?

7. How is the character of Uncle Boone described in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?

8. What are the central themes in the stories of Bobbie Ann Mason’s anthology?

9. Where is Louise Milsap’s husband in the beginning of “Still Life with Watermelon”? Why is he there?

10. How is the character of Peggy described in “Drawing Names”?

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