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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Greed
(b) Belief
(c) Sermons
(d) Hypocrisy

2. Louise’s husband in “Still Life with Watermelon” is currently where?
(a) Texas
(b) Arkansas
(c) Mississippi
(d) Oklahoma

3. Leroy tells Norma Jean what reason for why one of her arms is not as hard as the other in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) She’s right-handed.
(b) She’s got too much body fat.
(c) She’s left-handed.
(d) She’s using the wrong weights.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Old Things,” Linda believes that it’s awful that Cleo has gotten rid of every reminder of whom?

3. Where does Mack and Mary Lou’s youngest daughter attend college in “The Rookers”?

4. Rita Jean is worried sick about her cat named what in “Old Things”?

5. Where did Leroy’s tractor-trailer jackknife, causing his leg injury, in “Shiloh”?

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