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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Peach Cobbler” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator learn not to ask her mother about by the time she is six in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Candy.
(b) Her peach cobbler and God.
(c) Where babies came from.
(d) Money.

2. Where does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” begin to sleep at age 11?
(a) The living room.
(b) Her father’s house.
(c) The bedroom floor.
(d) Her friend’s house.

3. What does Tasheta tell her sister to tell Jackie regarding their father at the beginning of the letter in "Dear Sister"?
(a) That she did not miss much not having him around.
(b) That she never met him either.
(c) That he was a good man.
(d) That she would have loved him.

4. In "Dear Sister," who do the girls ask to find out who their other sister is after Miss Margaret mentions her?
(a) Their aunt.
(b) Their grandmother.
(c) Uncle Bird.
(d) Renee’s mother.

5. Why was their father nicknamed Stet in the short story “Dear Sister”?
(a) Because he wore a stethoscope around his neck.
(b) Because in high school he always wore a Stetson hat.
(c) Because he always wore Stetson cologne.
(d) Because he sold Stetson hats.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the narrator of “Dear Sister” writing at the start of the short story?

2. What is one of the lies Renee would tell her friends about her father in "Dear Sister"?

3. Which day of the week does the little girl’s mother always make peach cobbler?

4. Why does the little girl think the man who visits her mother is God?

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

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