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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Personal Voice: The Blue Machinery of Summer, Book Marks, and Silk Parachute.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Cofer NOT mention being in Little Puerto Rico?
(a) Grocery stores with Puerto Rican food.
(b) Speaking the same language.
(c) Puerto Rican restaurants.
(d) People that identity with their culture.
2. What question is Danticat asking at the end of the essay, "Westbury Court"?
(a) If the lady died.
(b) If her memory is correct and those children died.
(c) How to contact the lady.
(d) How the fire started.
3. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?
(a) Parachutes.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Space shuttles.
(d) Fire trucks.
4. What seemed to divide most households in Cofer's neighborhood?
(a) The desire to be back in their homeland.
(b) Who got the remote control for the TV.
(c) Who had to do the dishes at night.
(d) The desire to be assimilated into a white culture.
5. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.
(b) That it was expensive.
(c) How heavy it was.
(d) The color.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the lady in "Westbury Court" doing when the firemen come inside her apartment?
2. Pertaining to "Mirrorings," where do Lucy Grealy's doctors find a tumor?
3. How is time or age measured in Accawi's village?
4. Who does Komunyakaa become close with where he works?
5. How does Accawi feel about his village becoming a global community?
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