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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “How to Make Love to a Physicist” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leelee wake Rhonda to ask her the night before the snowfall?
(a) If they can cuddle.
(b) If she will shovel for them in the morning.
(c) If she ever thinks of moving back South.
(d) If the heat is on.

2. What subjects does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" assume the man she sees teaches based on his “face and baby dreads” (95)?
(a) Poetry or math.
(b) Poetry or Physics.
(c) Literature or Economics.
(d) Science or ELA.

3. What does the girl’s mother in “Peach Cobbler” tell her when she asks if she can buy extra peaches to make a cobbler?
(a) She does not have money to waste on her.
(b) She says she will teach her.
(c) She will never being able to cook.
(d) Sure.

4. What does Leelee say about the space her mother has for her in her life?
(a) It is not big enough for two.
(b) It is gone.
(c) It is suffocating.
(d) It is vast.

5. What does the little girl in “Peach Cobbler” see through her window as she walks home from school one Monday?
(a) Her mother and the pastor having sex.
(b) Her mother crying.
(c) Her mother with a man she had never seen.
(d) The pastor hitting her mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Leelee’s mother when she had her?

3. What does Olivia notice on the hall table while eating with Trevor and his mother after his aunt died in “Peach Cobbler”?

4. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” imagine putting in the cobbler before giving it to the pastor?

5. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," who does Eric quote saying that “lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along” (111)?

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