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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Jael” Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Leelee’s father?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A church deacon with whom her mother had an affair.
(c) A car salesman she has never met.
(d) Her mother’s high school sweet heart.

2. 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) Sure.
(b) She will never being able to cook.
(c) She does not have money to waste on her.
(d) She says she will teach her.

3. In “Peach Cobbler,” what is written on the paper the girl’s mother hands her one day after Pastor Neely had gone home?
(a) The Neely’s address.
(b) The name of her real father.
(c) Trevor’s cell number.
(d) The pastor’s phone number.

4. Why is the narrator writing the letter in “Dear Sister”?
(a) To tell of their father’s death.
(b) To tell of their mother’s death.
(c) Tell of their grandfather’s death.
(d) Tell of their grandmother’s death.

5. In "Dear Sister," what do the letter writer’s sisters do after she tells them Chauncey tried to ask her out at the funeral?
(a) They drown his food in hot sauce.
(b) They key his car.
(c) They slash his tires.
(d) They yell at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" teach in middle school?

2. How old is Eula when she and Caroletta first become intimate?

3. Which of Jael’s relatives does her Granny say she is most like?

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

5. What does Granny say she is going to tell Jael she needs to do after she told her she made “shitty crabs” (129)?

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