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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Dear Sister” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Eula and her friend do after finishing their first bottle of Spumante?
(a) Watch a movie.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Take a hot shower.
(d) Order Chinese.

2. What does the writer in "Dear Sister" feel embarrassed about with regards to her mother having two children with Stetson?
(a) That she is not as pretty as that sister.
(b) That she is not as intelligent as that sister.
(c) That her mother decided to be the same fool twice.
(d) That the sister with whom she shares a mother is not very kind.

3. What grade were Eula and her friend in when they first met?
(a) 10th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 2nd.
(d) 5th.

4. Why does Eula cancel her 31st birthday plans with Caroletta?
(a) She has had too much to drink.
(b) She is afraid they will be intimate again.
(c) The man she has been dating wants to take her out.
(d) She is mad at Caroletta.

5. In "Dear Sister," what is the truth about the one time the sisters' grandmother was wrong about her pregnancy prediction?
(a) That the writer had had an abortion.
(b) The writer’s youngest sister had had an abortion.
(c) Kimba was pregnant but did not want to tell anyone right away.
(d) That the grandmother was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caroletta tell Eula she feels God does not want people to do for decades and decades?

2. In "Dear Sister," what do the letter writer’s sisters do after she tells them Chauncey tried to ask her out at the funeral?

3. Where did the sisters in "Dear Sister" spend most of their summers growing up?

4. What holiday are Eula and her friend celebrating in the short story "Eula"?

5. Why was their father nicknamed Stet in the short story “Dear Sister”?

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