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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “How to Make Love to a Physicist” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which day of the week does the little girl’s mother always make peach cobbler?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Monday.

2. What does the little girl in “Peach Cobbler” see through her window as she walks home from school one Monday?
(a) Her mother with a man she had never seen.
(b) Her mother crying.
(c) The pastor hitting her mother.
(d) Her mother and the pastor having sex.

3. What does Miz Marilyn make them the first time Trevor kisses the girl in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Cold cuts.
(c) Pie.
(d) Grilled cheese.

4. What holiday was it when Renee was disappointed her father did not attend church with them as he had promised in "Dear Sister"?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) Mother’s Day.
(c) Easter.
(d) Father’s Day.

5. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," what does Lyra’s therapist encourage her to stop wearing after Lyra deletes Eric’s number for the second time?
(a) A bra.
(b) Underwear.
(c) Stockings.
(d) Girdles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" assume the man she sees teaches based on his “face and baby dreads” (95)?

2. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," how often do Eric and Lyra speak once she finally returns his calls?

3. What does Rhonda say “Black women aren’t meant to” (75) do at the start of “Snowfall”?

4. Why has Leelee’s mother distanced herself from her daughter, whom she had once told she could not imagine life without?

5. What happens to Leelee when she arrives at the university on the snow day?

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