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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leelee recall eating down South, while her family talked about how much weight she gained?
(a) Sweet potato pie.
(b) Banana pudding.
(c) Bread pudding.
(d) Banana cream pie.

2. In “Peach Cobbler,” what do readers finally learn the girl’s name is when she arrives at the pastor’s house and he answers?
(a) Stella.
(b) Jackie.
(c) Octavia.
(d) Olivia.

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

4. 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 intelligent as that sister.
(b) That the sister with whom she shares a mother is not very kind.
(c) That she is not as pretty as that sister.
(d) That her mother decided to be the same fool twice.

5. What is the only information the girl’s mother has ever given her about who her father is in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Where they met.
(b) His last name.
(c) His first name.
(d) That he is someone she would not want to know.

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

7. What class does Leelee teach on Friday afternoons?
(a) Economics.
(b) Black Women in Literature.
(c) Black History.
(d) Black Feminism.

8. How old is Eula when she and Caroletta first become intimate?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 30.

9. What does Caroletta tell Eula she feels God does not want people to do for decades and decades?
(a) Be school teachers.
(b) Live a sin free life.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Go untouched.

10. 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 her mother.
(b) A letter from her mother.
(c) A picture of Trevor and his prom date.
(d) A picture of Trevor’s aunt.

11. What does Rhonda cook for Leelee when they got home after work in “Snowfall”?
(a) Thai food.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Crab legs.
(d) Banana pudding.

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

13. How old was Leelee’s mother when she had her?
(a) 31.
(b) 41.
(c) 21.
(d) 17.

14. Where did Rhonda work when she bought her first home?
(a) The post office.
(b) A university.
(c) A mortgage company.
(d) The hospital.

15. What does Olivia do after she leaves Trevor’s house after their final tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Writes him a letter.
(b) Spends her money.
(c) Calls her mother.
(d) Cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Trevor and the girl begin to do at the beginning of each tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?

2. In “Peach Cobbler,” what does the girl’s mother say when the girl tries giving her the money she earned at the pastor’s house?

3. Why do the woman and Not-Daniel leave their cell phones on full volume when they are together?

4. What does Leelee say about the space her mother has for her in her life?

5. 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?

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