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

2. What does Leelee tell Rhonda she wants to do when she calls her after the incident at the university?
(a) She wants to quit her job.
(b) She wants to get married.
(c) She wants to break up.
(d) She wants to go home.

3. What does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” always have for dinner at her house?
(a) Chinese takeout.
(b) Frozen burritos.
(c) TV dinners.
(d) Frozen pizza.

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

5. 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 hates music.
(c) She does not have cable.
(d) She thinks MTV is silly.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Tasheta recently celebrate her fifth anniversary in "Dear Sister"?

2. What does the girl’s mother in “Peach Cobbler” tell her when she asks if she can buy extra peaches to make a cobbler?

3. What does Miz Marilyn make them the first time Trevor kisses the girl in “Peach Cobbler”?

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

5. What does the writer in "Dear Sister" feel embarrassed about with regards to her mother having two children with Stetson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What are Rhonda and Leelee doing to get ready for work at the beginning of “Snowfall”?

6. What happens in the daughter’s fantasy in which she feeds the pastor her homemade peach cobbler?

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

8. What do the woman and man in “Not-Daniel” have in common?

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

10. What does the woman ask Not-Daniel after they have sex in her car and how does he respond?

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