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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mother warn Daughter not to go out on the streets and show people when she was young and Bruce was out stealing in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
(a) Her body.
(b) Her ferocity.
(c) Her color.
(d) Her ignorance.

2. Who shows up at Jael’s house after she refuses to take this person’s calls?
(a) Jamie.
(b) Sadie.
(c) Twan.
(d) Kachelle.

3. How does the woman tell the man he will leave at the end of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Out the back door.
(b) Beyond satisfied.
(c) Peacefully.
(d) Quietly.

4. What does Jael from the Bible story do in the Song of Deborah?
(a) She gives birth to a daughter.
(b) She kills Deborah.
(c) She marries Sisera.
(d) She kills Sisera.

5. On what day does the narrator say you make love to a physicist?
(a) On a snow day.
(b) Valentine’s Day.
(c) Pi Day.
(d) Christmas Day.

6. What does Kachelle say to Jael after she says she does not believe in heaven?
(a) God will strike her down.
(b) Heaven is a place on earth.
(c) She is in heaven with Jamie.
(d) She does not either.

7. What does the woman tell the man he is not to do in the section “Your Wife,” of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Show her pictures of his wife.
(b) Bring her flowers.
(c) Bad-mouth his wife in front of her.
(d) Propose to her.

8. Where does Jael plan to go according to her last journal entry?
(a) Church.
(b) Jamie’s house.
(c) To the police to turn herself in.
(d) Kachelle’s house.

9. 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)?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Rumi.

10. How does the woman describe her tone is the “Feelings” section of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Light-hearted.
(c) Austere.
(d) Dark.

11. What do Eric and Lyra do at her apartment and Lyra wins in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?
(a) Wrestle.
(b) Play video games.
(c) Have a dance off.
(d) Play cards.

12. What dreams does Lyra begin to have after inviting Eric to come to her first solo art exhibit in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?
(a) Dreams she arrives at the exhibit naked.
(b) Dreams that nobody shows up to her exhibit.
(c) Sex dreams about Eric.
(d) Anxiety dreams.

13. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," what does Lyra’s therapist encourage her to stop wearing after Lyra deletes Eric’s number for the second time?
(a) Girdles.
(b) A bra.
(c) Stockings.
(d) Underwear.

14. After Granny reads Jael’s journal, what does she say she does not want living under her roof?
(a) A lesbian.
(b) A sinner.
(c) An abomination.
(d) A child.

15. What does the woman say the man must remember to do before he leaves in of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Shower.
(b) Put his wedding ring back on.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Text his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra do as soon as her flight lands after the conference, in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?

2. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say will happen to his wife should she show up at her house?

3. Who did Granny overhear at the corner store that Jael beat up recently?

4. Jael says she wants to see the inside of Sweet Sadie’s house under what condition?

5. What department store does the narrator’s mother say she bought clothes from at the start of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

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