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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What TV show do Leelee and Rhonda binge watch on snowy days?
2. What do Trevor and the girl begin to do at the beginning of each tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?
3. What does Leelee say about the space her mother has for her in her life?
4. Why do the woman and Not-Daniel leave their cell phones on full volume when they are together?
5. What do Eula and her friend do after finishing their first bottle of Spumante?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Olivia feel after the first time she and Trevor are intimate in “Peach Cobbler”?
2. What does Eula say regarding Valentine’s Day, and how does it make Caroletta feel?
3. What do the woman and man in “Not-Daniel” have in common?
4. What event compelled the writer to write to her sister Jackie in “Dear Sister”?
5. How does the mother respond when she learns her daughter thinks the pastor is God?
6. What happens in the daughter’s fantasy in which she feeds the pastor her homemade peach cobbler?
7. 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”?
8. What does the narrator of “Dear Sister” feel is the only good thing her father ever did for her and her sisters?
9. In “Peach Cobbler,” what was on the piece of paper the narrator’s mother handed her after the pastor left one day and why was it there?
10. How long have Eula and Caroletta been meeting at a hotel to celebrate New Year’s Eve?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of “Jael” in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the collection to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Unfaithful married men appear in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Write an essay exploring the theme of infidelity among married men in at least two of the stories in the collection.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Philyaw’s choice to write “How to Make Love to a Physicist” using second person point of view. What reason might the author have to write in this point of view? What effect does this have on the reader? And how does using second person point of view develop the theme of the story?
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