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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 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.

2. Why does the daughter feel her “new” mother is preferable to the one she had growing up in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
(a) She is smarter.
(b) She is funnier.
(c) She is kinder.
(d) She is prettier.

3. Why does Granny not hear the large booming sound she describes toward the end of “Jael”?
(a) She is at church.
(b) She has taken sleeping pills and is sound asleep.
(c) The TV is too loud.
(d) She is out of town.

4. What is Jael’s friend’s name, who Granny says is a hussy?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Kacy.
(c) Courtney.
(d) Kachelle.

5. What does Jamie call Jael when she passes his house?
(a) Lovely - J.
(b) Queen Jael.
(c) Bull dagger.
(d) Pretty Girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Granny say she and her family have alway chosen baby names?

2. What does the narrator of of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say she will do if she develops feelings for the man?

3. What does Jael do for the first time in ages the morning of Jamie’s death?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say the man might be surprised to find out about other women in the “Your Wife“ section?

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

3. What information does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” offer in the “About Me“ section?

4. What conversation does Jael‘s grandmother overhear about Jael at the corner store?

5. What are some of the things Lyra says she does not discuss with Eric when they first meet at the conference in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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