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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the woman refer to the man with whom she is having an affair as Not-Daniel?
(a) She cannot remember his name but it sounds like Daniel.
(b) Her ex-boyfriend’s name was Daniel.
(c) She has mistaken him for an old high school friend named Daniel.
(d) She does not like the name Daniel.

2. What do Eula and her friend do after finishing their first bottle of Spumante?
(a) Order Chinese.
(b) Watch a movie.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Take a hot shower.

3. Why did Leelee and Rhonda move away from the South and to the northern city in which they currently live?
(a) Rhonda was going to med school there.
(b) Leelee was going to med school there.
(c) Leelee got a university job.
(d) Rhonda got a university job.

4. Why has Leelee’s mother distanced herself from her daughter, whom she had once told she could not imagine life without?
(a) Because she is gay.
(b) Because she moved.
(c) Because of her career choice.
(d) Because her mother’s boyfriend does not like her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday are Eula and her friend celebrating in the short story "Eula"?

2. Where does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” begin to sleep at age 11?

3. In "Dear Sister," what do the letter writer’s sisters do after she tells them Chauncey tried to ask her out at the funeral?

4. What is the real name of the man for whom the little girl’s mother makes peach cobbler?

5. What do Trevor and the girl begin to do at the beginning of each tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe each of the letter writer’s sisters Kimba, Renee, and Tasheta.

2. What example does the letter writer use to show Jackie how her sisters are “the best sisters you could ask for” (34)?

3. What do the woman and man in “Not-Daniel” have in common?

4. What happens in the daughter’s fantasy in which she feeds the pastor her homemade peach cobbler?

5. What does the woman see when she looks into Not-Daniel's eyes after he first gets into her car toward the end of “Not-Daniel”?

6. What does the narrator of “Dear Sister” feel is the only good thing her father ever did for her and her sisters?

7. For whom does the narrator’s mother make peach cobbler every Monday in the story “Peach Cobbler”?

8. Why does the narrator’s mother refuse to let her go to Latasha’s sleepover in “Peach Cobbler”?

9. How does Caroletta feel when Eula asks her if she wants to die a virgin?

10. What questions does Olivia’s mother ask her when she returns from her first tutoring session at the Neely’s house in “Peach Cobbler”?

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