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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “When Eddie Levert Comes” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say will happen to his wife should she show up at her house?
(a) The woman will lie to his wife.
(b) The wife will get her feelings hurt.
(c) The woman will beat up the wife.
(d) The woman will call the cops on his wife.

2. What does the narrator of of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say she will do if she develops feelings for the man?
(a) Buy him presents.
(b) Tell his wife.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Stop texting him.

3. What does the little girl in “Peach Cobbler” see through her window as she walks home from school one Monday?
(a) The pastor hitting her mother.
(b) Her mother and the pastor having sex.
(c) Her mother with a man she had never seen.
(d) Her mother crying.

4. What is the name of the pastor’s wife who Jael describes in her journal at the start of “Jael”?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Sally.
(c) Sadie.
(d) Sonya.

5. 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"?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Gin.
(c) Tequila.
(d) Vodka.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," who does Eric quote saying that “lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along” (111)?

2. What does Granny tell Kachelle after one of her many phone calls?

3. What does Leelee tell Rhonda she wants to do when she calls her after the incident at the university?

4. In “Feelings,” what does the narrator of of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say the man should never do for her?

5. What does the pastor’s son, Trevor, do when the girl first goes to his house in “Peach Cobbler”?

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