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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Detroit Skyline, 1949.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Leroy and Norma Jean’s baby that died in “Shiloh”?
(a) Joe
(b) Jim
(c) Robert
(d) Randy

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

3. What word does the narrator’s play date pronounce “with two syllables” in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) Walk
(b) Hair
(c) Here
(d) There

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

5. What is Leroy’s last name in “Shiloh”?
(a) Wilson
(b) Moffitt
(c) Cashon
(d) Skaggs

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Norma Jean work in "Shiloh"?

2. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” lately Mack has become obsessed with the weather and likes to compare it to the predictions from where?

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

4. 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?

5. According to the narrator in “The Rookers,” “Mack said old people gave him the creeps, the way they talked about” what?

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