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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. Jael says she wants to see the inside of Sweet Sadie’s house under what condition?
2. What subjects does the narrator of "How to Make Love to A Physicist" assume the man she sees teaches based on his “face and baby dreads” (95)?
3. Who shows up at Jael’s house after she refuses to take this person’s calls?
4. Where do Jamie and Kachelle go with Jamie?
5. Which of Mother’s children had the lightest complexion in “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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”?
2. What does Daughter say to her brother Rico the first time he complains about his mother talking about Eddie Levert?
3. 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?
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. 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 does Daughter say to her mother while washing her hair at the end of “When Eddie Levert Comes”?
7. How does Granny describe the way Jael reacted when she hit her when she was six?
8. How does Kachelle react when Jael asked her if she had ever thought about doing “things with girls” (124)?
9. 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”?
10. 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”?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.”
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