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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom is the narrator of “Dear Sister” writing at the start of the short story?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her sister Jennifer.
(d) Her sister Jackie.

3. What does the narrator ask Not-Daniel if he thought about after they had made love in her car?
(a) Other women.
(b) His children.
(c) His wife.
(d) One of their mother's dying.

4. 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 picture of her mother.
(c) A letter from her mother.
(d) A picture of Trevor and his prom date.

5. What does Caroletta make for Eula for her 31st birthday dinner?
(a) Potato salad.
(b) A casserole.
(c) Baked chicken.
(d) Gumbo.

6. Which of the sisters in "Dear Sister" still acts as though their father was a good one?
(a) Kimba.
(b) Tasheta.
(c) Renee.
(d) Jackie.

7. In “Peach Cobbler,” how is Monica different from Olivia?
(a) She is tall.
(b) She is a good student.
(c) She is wealthy.
(d) She goes to private school.

8. What does Nichelle say her grandmother would like to know at the end of her letter in "Dear Sister"?
(a) Who her mother is.
(b) If she will come visit.
(c) If she is pregnant.
(d) If she has married.

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

10. What does Olivia say her mother and the pastor are at the end of “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) In love.
(b) The ugliest.
(c) A beautiful couple.
(d) Meant for each other.

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

12. In “Peach Cobbler,” what is the girl told she has to do to help the pastor’s son?
(a) Teach him to read.
(b) Tutor him in English.
(c) Tutor him in math.
(d) Clean his room.

13. What school did Kimba, the oldest sister in "Dear Sister," attend for college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Penn State.

14. Why did Leelee and Rhonda move away from the South and to the northern city in which they currently live?
(a) Rhonda got a university job.
(b) Leelee got a university job.
(c) Rhonda was going to med school there.
(d) Leelee was going to med school there.

15. 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 she dreamed her granddaughter was pregnant.
(b) Because someone told her one of them was pregnant.
(c) Because she had dreams of babies that week.
(d) Because she had dreams of fish that week.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eula say about Valentine’s Day which hurts Caroletta’s feelings?

3. What grade is the girl in when she “had tired of fighting off boys and gave in” (55)?

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

5. Why does Eula cancel her 31st birthday plans with Caroletta?

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