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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What grade is the girl in when she “had tired of fighting off boys and gave in” (55)?
2. Who is Leelee’s father?
3. Who approaches the narrator while she stands at her fathers grave after the other mourners have left in "Dear Sister"?
4. What does Leelee wake Rhonda to ask her the night before the snowfall?
5. What does Eula say about Valentine’s Day which hurts Caroletta’s feelings?
Short Essay Questions
1. For whom does the narrator’s mother make peach cobbler every Monday in the story “Peach Cobbler”?
2. What do Rhonda and Leelee typically do on snowy days?
3. What impression did Olivia get of Marilyn the first time she went over to tutor Trevor in “Peach Cobbler”?
4. What does Eula say regarding Valentine’s Day, and how does it make Caroletta feel?
5. What event compelled the writer to write to her sister Jackie in “Dear Sister”?
6. Why does the narrator’s mother refuse to let her go to Latasha’s sleepover in “Peach Cobbler”?
7. How does the mother respond when she learns her daughter thinks the pastor is God?
8. Where are Rhonda and Leelee from, and why are they living in the city now?
9. How long have Eula and Caroletta been meeting at a hotel to celebrate New Year’s Eve?
10. What do the woman and man in “Not-Daniel” have in common?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the character of Jael in “Jael” from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. What is her history? How would you describe her as a person? How does her Granny view her? Why does she do the things she does in the story?
Essay Topic 2
Unfaithful married men appear in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Write an essay exploring the theme of infidelity among married men in at least two of the stories in the collection.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Philyaw’s choice to write “Peach Cobbler” from the daughter, Olivia’s point of view. Discuss how this point-of-view impacts the reader’s experience. Using direct examples from the text, explain why this point-of-view is or is not an effective choice.
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