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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. Who did Granny overhear at the corner store that Jael beat up recently?
2. What does Granny say she must have tripped over when she fell during an argument with Jael about her getting a job?
3. How does Granny say she and her family have alway chosen baby names?
4. What does Daughter do as soon as she gets into the car with Tony after leaving her mother in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
5. What does Granny say she is going to tell Jael she needs to do after she told her she made “shitty crabs” (129)?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the section “Therapist”?
3. What did Daughter and her brothers feel when her mother was first saved on Easter Sunday?
4. 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)?
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 happens when Jael’s Granny tells Jael she needs to get a job?
7. Where do Eric and Lyra meet in “How to Make Love to a Physicist”?
8. What does Granny say about the teasing Jael experienced at school particularly from Twan who always called her jailbird?
9. What does the speaker in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the “Health and Wellness“ section?
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
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 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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