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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 does Rhonda cook for Leelee when they got home after work in “Snowfall”?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Crab legs.
(c) Thai food.
(d) Banana pudding.

2. What is Leelee’s full name, which Rhonda only calls her when she is mad at her?
(a) Shirley.
(b) Olivia.
(c) Arletha.
(d) LeeAnn.

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

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

5. Who does the little girl tell her mother the peach cobbler belongs to when she is found eating it out of the trash?
(a) God.
(b) Pastor.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the woman wait outside of at the start of “Not-Daniel"?

2. What grade were Eula and her friend in when they first met?

3. What does Leelee wake Rhonda to ask her the night before the snowfall?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the mother in “Peach Cobbler” do if the pastor does not show up on Monday?

4. Why does the narrator’s mother refuse to let her go to Latasha’s sleepover in “Peach Cobbler”?

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

6. How does Caroletta feel when Eula asks her if she wants to die a virgin?

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

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

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

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

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