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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Leelee when she arrives at the university on the snow day?
(a) She realizes the school is closed.
(b) She falls.
(c) She realizes she forgot her papers.
(d) She cannot remember what class she has.

3. What does the narrator learn not to ask her mother about by the time she is six in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Money.
(b) Candy.
(c) Where babies came from.
(d) Her peach cobbler and God.

4. What kind of car does the pastor’s wife drive in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) A blue Porsche.
(b) A pink Cadillac.
(c) A Tesla.
(d) A red corvette.

5. Who ruins Eula’s 31st birthday dinner?
(a) Caroletta.
(b) Eula.
(c) Her boyfriend’s estranged wife.
(d) Caroletta’s boyfriend.

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

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

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

9. 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”?
(a) She was in the video.
(b) She does not have cable.
(c) She hates music.
(d) She thinks MTV is silly.

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

11. What does Tasheta tell her sister to tell Jackie regarding their father at the beginning of the letter in "Dear Sister"?
(a) That she never met him either.
(b) That she did not miss much not having him around.
(c) That she would have loved him.
(d) That he was a good man.

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

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

14. What does Olivia say to Trevor when he pulls away from his mother when she tries to hug him in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) He should let his mother hug him if she wants to.
(b) She wishes her mother would hug her.
(c) How embarrassing.
(d) Does your mother always try to hug you?

15. What Is one of the things Eula tells Caroletta she plans to do to try to find a husband?
(a) Join the church singles softball team.
(b) Go on a blind date.
(c) Sign up for a dating app.
(d) Let her mother fix her up with somebody.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Peach Cobbler,” what is written on the paper the girl’s mother hands her one day after Pastor Neely had gone home?

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

4. What grade were Eula and her friend in when they first met?

5. What type of alcohol does the little girl’s mother drink when the pastor does not come on Monday in “Peach Cobbler”?

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