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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rhonda say “Black women aren’t meant to” (75) do at the start of “Snowfall”?
(a) Live in cold climates.
(b) Shovel snow.
(c) Get married.
(d) Date.

2. What did Leelee and Rhonda drink down South with tons of sugar in it?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Iced Coffee.
(c) Sun tea.
(d) Koolaid.

3. How old was Leelee’s mother when she had her?
(a) 31.
(b) 17.
(c) 41.
(d) 21.

4. In “Peach Cobbler,” what does Olivia bring to the tutoring session after Trevor’s aunt dies?
(a) A fruit basket.
(b) Meatloaf.
(c) Homemade pasta.
(d) Peach cobbler.

5. In "Dear Sister," what is the truth about the one time the sisters' grandmother was wrong about her pregnancy prediction?
(a) Kimba was pregnant but did not want to tell anyone right away.
(b) That the writer had had an abortion.
(c) The writer’s youngest sister had had an abortion.
(d) That the grandmother was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only information the girl’s mother has ever given her about who her father is in “Peach Cobbler”?

2. Why was their father nicknamed Stet in the short story “Dear Sister”?

3. Which sister in "Dear Sister" is the only one with whom the writer shares a mother?

4. What does Tasheta tell her sister to tell Jackie regarding their father at the beginning of the letter in "Dear Sister"?

5. What does Leelee wake Rhonda to ask her the night before the snowfall?

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