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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Olivia say her mother and the pastor are at the end of “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) The ugliest.
(b) Meant for each other.
(c) A beautiful couple.
(d) In love.

2. What does Nichelle say her grandmother would like to know at the end of her letter in "Dear Sister"?
(a) If she will come visit.
(b) If she is pregnant.
(c) Who her mother is.
(d) If she has married.

3. What does Leelee recall eating down South, while her family talked about how much weight she gained?
(a) Banana cream pie.
(b) Banana pudding.
(c) Bread pudding.
(d) Sweet potato pie.

4. In “Peach Cobbler,” what is the girl told she has to do to help the pastor’s son?
(a) Tutor him in English.
(b) Clean his room.
(c) Teach him to read.
(d) Tutor him in math.

5. What does Caroletta tell Eula she feels God does not want people to do for decades and decades?
(a) Be school teachers.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Go untouched.
(d) Live a sin free life.

6. What liquor is Tasheta setting up for them when the writer returns to the room after trying to find out who her other sister is in "Dear Sister"?
(a) Gin.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Tequila.
(d) Vodka.

7. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” always have for dinner at her house?
(a) Frozen pizza.
(b) Frozen burritos.
(c) Chinese takeout.
(d) TV dinners.

8. What does Tasheta tell her sister to tell Jackie regarding their father at the beginning of the letter in "Dear Sister"?
(a) That he was a good man.
(b) That she did not miss much not having him around.
(c) That she would have loved him.
(d) That she never met him either.

9. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” imagine putting in the cobbler before giving it to the pastor?
(a) Glass.
(b) Hot sauce.
(c) Extra peaches.
(d) Nails.

10. To whom is the narrator of “Dear Sister” writing at the start of the short story?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister Jackie.
(d) Her sister Jennifer.

11. Where does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” get her first job at age 14?
(a) The movie theater.
(b) A shoe store.
(c) A diner.
(d) An office.

12. What did Rhonda’s mother do when Rhonda was a teen and her mother found out she was gay?
(a) She kicked her out.
(b) She prayed for her soul.
(c) She sent her to a conversion camp.
(d) She asked to meet her girlfriend.

13. Who ruins Eula’s 31st birthday dinner?
(a) Caroletta’s boyfriend.
(b) Caroletta.
(c) Her boyfriend’s estranged wife.
(d) Eula.

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

15. What grade is the girl in when she “had tired of fighting off boys and gave in” (55)?
(a) 9th.
(b) 11th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 8th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the little girl think the man who visits her mother is God?

2. What does the little girl in “Peach Cobbler” see through her window as she walks home from school one Monday?

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

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

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

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