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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 subject does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" teach in middle school?
2. What does Lyra do as soon as her flight lands after the conference, in "How to Make Love to A Physicist"?
3. What is the title of the final section in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
4. What is the first thing the man must, according to the “Your Arrival” section in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands”?
5. Who did Granny overhear at the corner store that Jael beat up recently?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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)?
2. 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”?
3. What does Daughter say to her mother while washing her hair at the end of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
4. What is one of the reasons Daughter suspects her mother may feel a bond with Eddie Levert?
5. Who does Jael describe in her first journal entry and what does she think of that person?
6. What does the speaker in “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say under the “Health and Wellness“ section?
7. 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”?
8. 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?
9. What does the narrator of “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” say she will do if she ever develops feelings for him under the section “Feelings”?
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 explaining the significance of the title of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. How does the title support the overall narrative tone and theme of the short story collection?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay describing the author’s narrative tone and writing style in two of the stories from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Compare and contrast the author’s tone and writing style in each story. Use examples from the text as evidence for your argument.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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