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

2. Where are Trevor’s parents the first time he and Olivia make love in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Visiting his sick aunt.
(b) Church.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) The movies.

3. What TV show do Leelee and Rhonda binge watch on snowy days?
(a) Game of Thrones.
(b) The Office.
(c) X-Files.
(d) Parks and Rec.

4. In “Peach Cobbler,” what do readers finally learn the girl’s name is when she arrives at the pastor’s house and he answers?
(a) Olivia.
(b) Jackie.
(c) Octavia.
(d) Stella.

5. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” imagine putting in the cobbler before giving it to the pastor?
(a) Extra peaches.
(b) Glass.
(c) Nails.
(d) Hot sauce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday was it when Renee was disappointed her father did not attend church with them as he had promised in "Dear Sister"?

2. What is Trevor surprised to learn about the girl when he asks if she had seen the Fat Boys’ video on MTV in “Peach Cobbler”?

3. Which of her sisters in "Dear Sister" does the writer assume cannot be pregnant because she gets Depo shots?

4. What is the only information the girl’s mother has ever given her about who her father is in “Peach Cobbler”?

5. What do the woman and Not-Daniel have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the mother in “Peach Cobbler” do if the pastor does not show up on Monday?

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

3. What do Rhonda and Leelee typically do on snowy days?

4. How does Olivia feel after seeing the picture of Trevor and his girlfriend at the prom at the end of “Peach Cobbler”?

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

6. How does the mother respond when she learns her daughter thinks the pastor is God?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What happened to Renee one Father’s Day when they were young in “Dear Sister”?

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