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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 first heading in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Health and Wellness.
(b) Your Arrival.
(c) The Basics.
(d) About Me.

2. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say will happen to his wife should she show up at her house?
(a) The woman will call the cops on his wife.
(b) The woman will beat up the wife.
(c) The wife will get her feelings hurt.
(d) The woman will lie to his wife.

3. Who does Jael describe kissing in one of her final journal entries?
(a) Twan.
(b) Sadie.
(c) Kachelle.
(d) Jamie.

4. In "How to Make Love to A Physicist," how often do Eric and Lyra speak once she finally returns his calls?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Biweekly.
(c) Daily.
(d) Weekly.

5. What does Jael from the Bible story do in the Song of Deborah?
(a) She kills Sisera.
(b) She gives birth to a daughter.
(c) She marries Sisera.
(d) She kills Deborah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny say she must have tripped over when she fell during an argument with Jael about her getting a job?

2. On what day does the narrator say you make love to a physicist?

3. What does the woman tell the man not to do in the section “Your Religion,” of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?

4. 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)?

5. How does Jael describe Jamie after he comes out of his room with Kachelle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one of the reasons Daughter suspects her mother may feel a bond with Eddie Levert?

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

4. How does Kachelle react when Jael asked her if she had ever thought about doing “things with girls” (124)?

5. What is the mother talking about at the beginning of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

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

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

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

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

10. What are some of the things Lyra does based on her therapist suggestions after she deleted Eric‘s phone number for the second time in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?

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