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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Rhonda got a university job.
(c) Leelee was going to med school there.
(d) Leelee got a university job.

4. What does Jael threaten a boy with who tried to grabbed her butt?
(a) A gun.
(b) A bat.
(c) A broken bottle.
(d) A knife.

5. What does Eula say about Valentine’s Day which hurts Caroletta’s feelings?
(a) That she does not believe in Valentine’s Day.
(b) That next Valentine’s Day will be the last one she spends alone.
(c) That she does not like the gift Caroletta got her for Valentine’s Day.
(d) That she does not want to spend Valentine’s Day with Caroletta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jael from the Bible story do in the Song of Deborah?

2. 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"?

3. Where does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” suggest the man she addresses in her manual park when meeting her?

4. What does the little girl’s mother do with the peach cobbler if the pastor does not show up on Monday?

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

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