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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Peach Cobbler” .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the girl’s mother in “Peach Cobbler” tell her she would do if she was smart when she finds her making peach cobbler?
(a) She would save money.
(b) She would study harder.
(c) She would not try to be anything like her mother.
(d) She would add more peaches.

3. What does the narrator learn not to ask her mother about by the time she is six in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Her peach cobbler and God.
(b) Money.
(c) Where babies came from.
(d) Candy.

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) Easter.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) Mother’s Day.
(d) Father’s Day.

5. Why does the grandmother in "Dear Sister" think one of the girls is pregnant when they are staying with her before their father’s funeral?
(a) Because someone told her one of them was pregnant.
(b) Because she dreamed her granddaughter was pregnant.
(c) Because she had dreams of fish that week.
(d) Because she had dreams of babies that week.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town do Eula and her friend meet at the beginning of “Eula”?

2. Which of the sisters in "Dear Sister" still acts as though their father was a good one?

3. Where did the sisters in "Dear Sister" spend most of their summers growing up?

4. Why is the narrator writing the letter in “Dear Sister”?

5. Who does the little girl tell her mother the peach cobbler belongs to when she is found eating it out of the trash?

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