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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 Jael do when her Granny falls during their argument?
2. What does Jael feel about Sadie when she speaks to her at church?
3. What department store does the narrator’s mother say she bought clothes from at the start of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
4. What does the narrator of of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say will happen if the man she is writing to develops feelings for her?
5. What business does the narrator own in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Granny describe the way Jael reacted when she hit her when she was six?
2. 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)?
3. How does Kachelle react when Jael asked her if she had ever thought about doing “things with girls” (124)?
4. What are some of the things Lyra does based on her therapist suggestions after she deleted Eric‘s phone number for the second time in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?
5. 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?
6. What happens when Jael’s Granny tells Jael she needs to get a job?
7. 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?
8. What does Daughter say to her mother while washing her hair at the end of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
9. What conversation does Jael‘s grandmother overhear about Jael at the corner store?
10. 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”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Mother/ daughter relationships are explores in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Choose 2-3 stories and explore the theme of mother-daughter relationships within the context of each story. Compare and contrast this theme from each of the stories you choose.
Essay Topic 3
The theme of colorism, prejudice against those with darker skin tones is prevalent in several of the short stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Write an essay exploring the theme of colorism in at least two of the short stories from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
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