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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Nancy’s son Robert in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) 12
(b) 8
(c) 5
(d) 7

2. What is the name of the narrator’s aunt in “Detroit Skyline, 1949” that she and her mother went to visit in Detroit when she was young?
(a) Rita Jean Wiggins
(b) Louise Milsap
(c) Mozelle Cashon
(d) Peggy Wilson

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

4. Where do Leroy and Norma Jean live in “Shiloh”?
(a) Texas
(b) Kentucky
(c) Alabama
(d) Arkansas

5. Nancy and her husband live in a small town an hour’s drive from what city in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Cleveland
(c) Boston
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

1. Kent is a part-time student at what college in “Drawing Names”?

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

3. 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?

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. What is the name of Nancy’s history professor that attends her wedding in “Nancy Culpepper”?

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