2. When Joe arrives for dinner in “Graveyard Day,” Waldeen tells him Holly is mad because she won’t make what?
(a) Tofu Burgers
(b) Organic Pasta
(c) Soybean Supreme
(d) Potatoes with Garlic

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) Red apple trees
(b) Daisies
(c) Mutant jimsonweeds
(d) Purple irises

4. The narrator says in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that when she was young she lived “not far from the U.S. highway that took so many Southerners northward to work in the auto industry just after” what war?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) World War II
(c) World War I
(d) The Korean War

5. The narrator’s mother in “Residents and Transients” tells her that what “brings on cancer”?
(a) Anger
(b) Hypocrisy
(c) Bad food
(d) Heartbreak

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of Holly’s father in “Graveyard Day”?

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

4. Joe has an antique walking stick that belonged to whom in “Graveyard Day”?

5. Nancy’s grandmother is said to use only what kind of soap on her dishes in “Nancy Culpepper”?

(see the answer key)

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