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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How big is the television that the narrator’s uncle shows her in his living room in “Detroit Skyline, 1949”?
(a) 15 inches
(b) 20 inches
(c) 10 inches
(d) 19 inches

3. In what children’s book does the narrator describe a “picture of a child with his guardian angel hovering over him in "Detroit Skyline, 1949"?
(a) The Princess and the Pea
(b) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
(c) The Curious Rabbit
(d) Aesop's Fairy Tales

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sandra’s grandfather die from in “Offerings”?

2. What is Leroy’s last name in “Shiloh”?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What kind of instrument does the narrator say Leroy gave Norma Jean for Christmas in “Shiloh”?

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