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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Residents and Transients.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of her parents’ farmhouse, the narrator of “Residents and Transients” says, “I love its stateliness, the way it rises up from the fields like a patch of” what?
(a) Purple irises
(b) Daisies
(c) Mutant jimsonweeds
(d) Red apple trees

4. In “Old Things,” Linda believes that it’s awful that Cleo has gotten rid of every reminder of whom?
(a) Peter
(b) Jake
(c) John
(d) Kent

5. The narrator of “Residents and Transients” says that “there are a few here who think” what place “in Louisville would be the grandest place in the world to be”?
(a) The Louisville Zoo
(b) The Louisville Slugger Museum
(c) Waverly Hills
(d) Churchill Downs

Short Answer Questions

1. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?

2. What is the name of Cleo’s grandson that is staying with her in “Old Things”?

3. Why does the narrator say she returned to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?

4. Dolores’s friend is said to have gone to a dude ranch where when an earthquake was predicted for western Kentucky in “The Climber”?

5. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?

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