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

2. What day of the week does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” begin making peach cobbler while her mother drinks?
(a) Friday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Sunday.

3. How old were Leelee and Rhonda when they met?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 35.
(d) 30.

4. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” imagine putting in the cobbler before giving it to the pastor?
(a) Glass.
(b) Hot sauce.
(c) Extra peaches.
(d) Nails.

5. With whom did Tasheta recently celebrate her fifth anniversary in "Dear Sister"?
(a) One of her married boyfriends.
(b) Her husband
(c) Her girlfriend.
(d) Her high school sweetheart..

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask Not-Daniel if he thought about after they had made love in her car?

2. In “Peach Cobbler,” what does Olivia bring to the tutoring session after Trevor’s aunt dies?

3. Where does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” begin to sleep at age 11?

4. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” always have for dinner at her house?

5. Which of the sisters in "Dear Sister" still acts as though their father was a good one?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Olivia feel after the first time she and Trevor are intimate in “Peach Cobbler”?

2. Briefly describe each of the letter writer’s sisters Kimba, Renee, and Tasheta.

3. What do Rhonda and Leelee typically do on snowy days?

4. What impression did Olivia get of Marilyn the first time she went over to tutor Trevor in “Peach Cobbler”?

5. 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”?

6. What does the narrator of “Dear Sister” feel is the only good thing her father ever did for her and her sisters?

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

8. What does the little girl feel when her mother and the pastor always leave her room laughing?

9. 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?

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

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