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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. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," what does Lyra’s therapist encourage her to stop wearing after Lyra deletes Eric’s number for the second time?
(a) Girdles.
(b) Underwear.
(c) A bra.
(d) Stockings.

2. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," who does Eric quote saying that “lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along” (111)?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Rumi.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Plato.

3. What is the title of the final section in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) “Farewell.”
(b) “Our Goodbye.”
(c) “The End.”
(d) “Your Departure.”

4. Who shows up at Jael’s house after she refuses to take this person’s calls?
(a) Twan.
(b) Jamie.
(c) Kachelle.
(d) Sadie.

5. What does Lyra decide at 2 a.m. when she considers inviting Eric up to her hotel room, in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?
(a) She will wait for him to make the first move.
(b) She decides to go for it.
(c) She will invite him the next night if she still wants to.
(d) She does not want to be the kind of woman her mother warned her not to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the pastor’s wife who Jael describes in her journal at the start of “Jael”?

2. On what holiday was mother saved when Daughter was young in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

3. Where does Daughter go in the morning after her date with Tony while he watches her mother in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

4. 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"?

5. When did Granny decide to stop taking Jael to church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Granny concerned about if someone from the news speaks to the police regarding what happened to Jamie?

4. What happens when Jael’s Granny tells Jael she needs to get a job?

5. What does the speaker in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the “Health and Wellness“ section?

6. What did Daughter and her brothers feel when her mother was first saved on Easter Sunday?

7. What is the narrator's instructions in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” under the “Social media and technology” section?

8. What information does Granny get from the news and from her friend Barbara regarding Jamie McWhite and the large booming sound that she had slept through?

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

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

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