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

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

3. How does Granny say she and her family have alway chosen baby names?
(a) By choosing randomly from the Bible.
(b) By assigning each name a number an rolling a dice.
(c) By pulling names from a hat.
(d) By praying for the right name.

4. How old is the man Jael says invited her and Kachelle to a crab boil at his house?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

5. How does the woman tell the man he will leave at the end of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
(a) Peacefully.
(b) Quietly.
(c) Beyond satisfied.
(d) Out the back door.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lyra apologize to Eric for not calling him for awhile in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?

2. What is the first thing the man must, according to the “Your Arrival” section in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?

3. What does Eric say when the narrator tells him her name is Lyra, in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?

4. Who does daughter go to dinner with one Friday while Rico watches their mother in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say she will do if she ever develops feelings for him under the section “Feelings”?

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

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

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

6. What types of things do Eric and Lyra discuss over the course of their days together at the conference in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?

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

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

9. What does Jael say at the end of the story in reference to her grandmother’s saying that “every shut eye ain’t sleep“ (144)?

10. 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?

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