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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Trevor and the girl begin to do at the beginning of each tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Make out.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Go over his homework.
(d) Watch MTV.

2. Why does the grandmother in "Dear Sister" think one of the girls is pregnant when they are staying with her before their father’s funeral?
(a) Because someone told her one of them was pregnant.
(b) Because she had dreams of babies that week.
(c) Because she had dreams of fish that week.
(d) Because she dreamed her granddaughter was pregnant.

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

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

5. Where does the woman wait outside of at the start of “Not-Daniel"?
(a) A hospice center.
(b) Her boyfriend’s work.
(c) A nursing home.
(d) Her mothers home.

6. What is Leelee’s full name, which Rhonda only calls her when she is mad at her?
(a) LeeAnn.
(b) Olivia.
(c) Arletha.
(d) Shirley.

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

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

9. Why does the woman refer to the man with whom she is having an affair as Not-Daniel?
(a) She does not like the name Daniel.
(b) She has mistaken him for an old high school friend named Daniel.
(c) She cannot remember his name but it sounds like Daniel.
(d) Her ex-boyfriend’s name was Daniel.

10. What is one of the lies Renee would tell her friends about her father in "Dear Sister"?
(a) That he is the richest man in the country.
(b) That he is a famous actor.
(c) That he takes her to the Bahamas.
(d) That he is a famous musician.

11. In “Peach Cobbler,” what does Olivia bring to the tutoring session after Trevor’s aunt dies?
(a) Homemade pasta.
(b) A fruit basket.
(c) Peach cobbler.
(d) Meatloaf.

12. What year does the short story "Eula" take place?
(a) 2009.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2019.

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

14. What does Olivia notice on the hall table while eating with Trevor and his mother after his aunt died in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) A picture of Trevor’s aunt.
(b) A letter from her mother.
(c) A picture of Trevor and his prom date.
(d) A picture of her mother.

15. What holiday was it when Renee was disappointed her father did not attend church with them as he had promised in "Dear Sister"?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) Easter.
(c) Mother’s Day.
(d) Father’s Day.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What does the little girl’s mother do with the peach cobbler if the pastor does not show up on Monday?

4. What does Rhonda say “Black women aren’t meant to” (75) do at the start of “Snowfall”?

5. What does the narrator learn not to ask her mother about by the time she is six in “Peach Cobbler”?

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