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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 does the woman say the man must remember to do before he leaves in of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
2. Who does Jael describe kissing in one of her final journal entries?
3. What does Jael kick down the stairs at Jamie's house after he and Kachelle go to his room?
4. What does the woman tell the man he is not to do in the section “Your Wife,” of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
5. Where do Jamie and Kachelle go with Jamie?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Kachelle react when Jael asked her if she had ever thought about doing “things with girls” (124)?
2. What is Jael‘s grandmother‘s reaction to the first journal entry she reads in the short story “Jael”?
3. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say the man might be surprised to find out about other women in the “Your Wife“ section?
4. What information does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” offer in the “About Me“ section?
5. In “How to Make Love to a Physicist,” why does Lyra decide against inviting Eric up to her room when it is 2 a.m. and they have spent the entire day talking?
6. What does Jael say at the end of the story in reference to her grandmother’s saying that “every shut eye ain’t sleep“ (144)?
7. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the section “Therapist”?
8. What happens the first time Jael goes to Jamie‘s house alone?
9. What is Granny concerned about if someone from the news speaks to the police regarding what happened to Jamie?
10. What does Jamie say to Jael when she walks by his house alone after the first time she and Kachelle had gone there?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose one story from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies and analyze your emotional reaction to the story as a whole, or to a particular scene from the story. What emotions did you feel while reading that story or scene? What words or symbols evoked that particular emotion? Do you think these emotions were what the author intended?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the sensory details used in “Snowfall.” Be sure to explain the deeper meaning and thematic significance of these details.
Essay Topic 3
Food is a theme in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Write an essay exploring food symbolism in “Peach Cobbler” and “Snowfall.”
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