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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Olivia.
(b) Octavia.
(c) Jackie.
(d) Stella.

2. Why does the little girl’s mother not allow her to go to a sleepover at Latasha’s in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Because she cannot afford to buy her a gift.
(b) Because Latasha’s family is well off, and the mother does not want her daughter to think life is like that.
(c) Because Latasha’s parents are mean.
(d) Because she does not like Latasha’s father.

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

4. Why does the little girl think the man who visits her mother is God?
(a) Because that is what he tells her.
(b) Because that is what her mother yells when they are in the bedroom.
(c) Because that is what her mother tells her.
(d) Because her neighbor tells her he is God.

5. What grade is the girl in when she “had tired of fighting off boys and gave in” (55)?
(a) 11th.
(b) 9th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 8th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caroletta make for Eula for her 31st birthday dinner?

2. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” imagine putting in the cobbler before giving it to the pastor?

3. Why did Leelee and Rhonda move away from the South and to the northern city in which they currently live?

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

5. Who ruins Eula’s 31st birthday dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Leelee‘s relationship like with her mother in “Snowfall”?

2. What happened to Renee one Father’s Day when they were young in “Dear Sister”?

3. What does Rhonda do for Leelee at the end of “Snowfall“ after they return home from work on the snowy day?

4. What does the woman see when she looks into Not-Daniel's eyes after he first gets into her car toward the end of “Not-Daniel”?

5. For whom does the narrator’s mother make peach cobbler every Monday in the story “Peach Cobbler”?

6. What questions does Olivia’s mother ask her when she returns from her first tutoring session at the Neely’s house in “Peach Cobbler”?

7. In “Peach Cobbler,” what was on the piece of paper the narrator’s mother handed her after the pastor left one day and why was it there?

8. Where are Rhonda and Leelee from, and why are they living in the city now?

9. How does Olivia feel after seeing the picture of Trevor and his girlfriend at the prom at the end of “Peach Cobbler”?

10. What is the significance of the grandmother’s fish dreams in “Dear Sister”?

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