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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 illness does the mother have in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
(a) Heart Disease.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Alzheimer’s.

2. What does the mother do to her egg that repulses her daughter at the beginning of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
(a) She mashes them with her fork.
(b) She puts sour cream on them.
(c) She puts ketchup on them.
(d) She chews them with her mouth open.

3. What did children call Jael when she first started school?
(a) Juvie.
(b) Orphan.
(c) Joel.
(d) Jailbird.

4. What is Jamie doing when Jael walks by his house after school after the first time she went there?
(a) Drinking a beer.
(b) Walking his dog.
(c) Fixing a fence.
(d) Washing his Cadillac.

5. What is the first thing the man must, according to the “Your Arrival” section in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Take off his wedding ring.
(b) Take off his clothes.
(c) Take a shower.
(d) Kiss her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" assume the man she sees teaches based on his “face and baby dreads” (95)?

2. What does Eric say when Lyra asks if he thinks God cares about how people treat other people, in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?

3. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," how often do Eric and Lyra speak once she finally returns his calls?

4. What does the woman tell the man he is not to do in the section “Your Wife,” of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?

5. What does Granny worry people might think Jael is if they learn what she did to Jamie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens the first time Jael goes to Jamie‘s house alone?

2. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the section “Therapist”?

3. What does Eric tell Lyra he is going to need her to do if they are going to try to make it work when he calls her after he receives the sketch she sent him as an apology in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?

4. What is Jael‘s grandmother‘s reaction to the first journal entry she reads in the short story “Jael”?

5. In “How to Make Love to a Physicist,” why does Lyra decide against inviting Eric up to her room when it is 2 a.m. and they have spent the entire day talking?

6. What does Daughter say to her mother while washing her hair at the end of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

7. Who does Jael describe in her first journal entry and what does she think of that person?

8. Describe Daughter’s date with Tony in “When Eddie Levert Comes.”

9. How does Granny describe the way Jael reacted when she hit her when she was six?

10. What does Jamie say to Jael when she walks by his house alone after the first time she and Kachelle had gone there?

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