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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in “Old Things,” “After her husband died, [Cleo] moved to town, to a little brick house with a dishwasher and” what?
(a) Granite countertops in the kitchen
(b) Wall-to-wall carpet
(c) Cherry-stained hardwood floors
(d) A yard that needed mowing

2. Sandra’s husband is in Louisville working where in “Offerings”?
(a) Piggly Wiggly
(b) J.C. Penney's
(c) K-Mart
(d) Kroger's

3. Who’s car does Cleo say is “here all the time” in “Old Things”?
(a) Louise's
(b) Linda's
(c) Waldeen's
(d) Dolores's

4. Dolores’s friend enrolled in beauty school at what age in “The Climber”?
(a) 37
(b) 26
(c) 42
(d) 60

5. What kind of store does the narrator of “Offerings” say Joe Stamper owned and ran?
(a) A candy store
(b) A shoe store
(c) A book store
(d) A coffee shop

6. How many people are expected for Christmas dinner in “Drawing Names”?
(a) 12
(b) 10
(c) 16
(d) 22

7. In “Old Things,” Linda believes that it’s awful that Cleo has gotten rid of every reminder of whom?
(a) John
(b) Peter
(c) Kent
(d) Jake

8. Petey claims in “The Climber” that “Jesus is a” what?
(a) Leader
(b) Savior
(c) Vampire
(d) Zombie

9. What grandchild of Cleo’s chatters on the phone in “Old Things”?
(a) Tammy
(b) Julia
(c) Mary
(d) Linda

10. What is Mary Lou’s last name in “The Rookers”?
(a) Cashon
(b) Belletieri
(c) Skaggs
(d) Wilson

11. What weight dumbbells does Norma Jean lift to warm up in the beginning of “Shiloh”?
(a) 2 lb.
(b) 1 lb.
(c) 3 lb.
(d) 5 lb.

12. 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) The Curious Rabbit
(c) Aesop's Fairy Tales
(d) Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories

13. What is Louise’s last name in “Still Life with Watermelon”?
(a) Yates
(b) Wilson
(c) Milsap
(d) Turnbow

14. 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 I
(c) World War II
(d) The Korean War

15. Peggy tells Louise in “Still Life with Watermelon” that what rich collector will buy her pictures of watermelons?
(a) Herman Priddle
(b) Joe Murdock
(c) Edwin Creech
(d) Jack Cleveland

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cleo’s last name in “Old Things”?

2. What was the name of Leroy and Norma Jean’s baby that died in “Shiloh”?

3. Dolores has an appointment with a gynecologist to see about what, in “The Climber”?

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. How many children does Dolores have in “The Climber”?

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