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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 does Granny worry people might think Jael is if they learn what she did to Jamie?
2. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say the man can do if he wants to before he leaves?
3. Where does Jael plan to go according to her last journal entry?
4. What does the woman tell the man he is not to do in the section “Your Wife,” of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
5. What does Granny tell Kachelle after one of her many phone calls?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Daughter’s date with Tony in “When Eddie Levert Comes.”
2. In “How to Make Love to a Physicist,” why does Lyra decide against inviting Eric up to her room when it is 2 a.m. and they have spent the entire day talking?
3. What is Granny concerned about if someone from the news speaks to the police regarding what happened to Jamie?
4. What does Jamie say to Jael when she walks by his house alone after the first time she and Kachelle had gone there?
5. How does Kachelle react when Jael asked her if she had ever thought about doing “things with girls” (124)?
6. What does Daughter say to her mother while washing her hair at the end of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
7. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the section “Therapist”?
8. 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)?
9. 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”?
10. How does Granny describe the way Jael reacted when she hit her when she was six?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the letter in “Dear Sister.” The letter writer writes in the presence and with the input of her sisters. How might this letter be different if they were not around? What does she write on their behalf? What might she have included if they were not present?
Essay Topic 2
Food is a theme in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Write an essay exploring food symbolism in “Peach Cobbler” and “Snowfall.”
Essay Topic 3
Many of the characters are viewed as sinful in the eyes of the church for their sexual interests or behaviors. Write an essay analyzing the theme of oppression and the church in two of the stories from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
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