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

2. 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.

3. What does the little girl’s mother do with the peach cobbler if the pastor does not show up on Monday?
(a) Eats it all herself.
(b) Gives it to the neighbor.
(c) Gives it to her daughter.
(d) Throws it away.

4. Why does Eula cancel her 31st birthday plans with Caroletta?
(a) She is mad at Caroletta.
(b) She is afraid they will be intimate again.
(c) She has had too much to drink.
(d) The man she has been dating wants to take her out.

5. What do Trevor and the girl begin to do at the beginning of each tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?
(a) Make out.
(b) Go over his homework.
(c) Watch MTV.
(d) Gossip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tasheta tell her sister to tell Jackie regarding their father at the beginning of the letter in "Dear Sister"?

2. What did Rhonda’s mother do when Rhonda was a teen and her mother found out she was gay?

3. What does Nichelle say her grandmother would like to know at the end of her letter in "Dear Sister"?

4. What does Olivia say regarding the pastor after she returns home for her final tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?

5. What does Olivia say her mother and the pastor are at the end of “Peach Cobbler”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Olivia and Trevor begin to do during the first few minutes of their tutoring session in “Peach Cobbler”?

2. How does the mother respond when she learns her daughter thinks the pastor is God?

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

4. What are some of the things Leelee says she misses about living down south?

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

6. What does Eula say regarding Valentine’s Day, and how does it make Caroletta feel?

7. What example does the letter writer use to show Jackie how her sisters are “the best sisters you could ask for” (34)?

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

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

10. What event compelled the writer to write to her sister Jackie in “Dear Sister”?

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