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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. 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)?
2. How does the woman tell the man he will leave at the end of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
3. On what holiday was mother saved when Daughter was young in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
4. What does Jael feel about Sadie when she speaks to her at church?
5. Where did Mother once meet Eddie Levert as evidenced by a photo in their family album?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the mother talking about at the beginning of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
2. 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”?
3. 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?
4. What is Jael‘s grandmother‘s reaction to the first journal entry she reads in the short story “Jael”?
5. What does Jamie say to Jael when she walks by his house alone after the first time she and Kachelle had gone there?
6. What did Daughter and her brothers feel when her mother was first saved on Easter Sunday?
7. What is Granny concerned about if someone from the news speaks to the police regarding what happened to Jamie?
8. What does Daughter say to her brother Rico the first time he complains about his mother talking about Eddie Levert?
9. Describe Daughter’s date with Tony in “When Eddie Levert Comes.”
10. 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”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the course of Lyra and Eric’s relationship in “How to Make Love to a Physicist.” How does this relationship develop over the course of the story? What changes does each character experience in order to make the relationship go in the direction it does?
Essay Topic 2
Write an analysis of Tony’s character in “When Eddie Levert Comes.” Who is he? What relationship does he have with Daughter? Why does he have the relationship he has with Daughter? What purpose does the relationship serve for him and for her? How are there needs different and how are they the same?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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