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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard compare the exhaust trail of the plane to in "The Stunt Pilot"?
(a) A bird's tail.
(b) The brush of a hand.
(c) The wind.
(d) A stroke of a painter's brush.

2. What new thing happened to Frazier and his friends as they grew up in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) They started to like girls.
(b) They realized being lazy was what they should do for a living.
(c) They all grew apart and weren't friends anymore.
(d) They began to feel guilty when they were not being productive.

3. What happened to the boy Ehrlich referred to in her essay, "Spring"?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He died in a car accident.
(c) He moved away to another town.
(d) He died from cancer.

4. Why is Cofer reflecting on the memories of moving to New York City?
(a) She watches an old home video.
(b) She moved away.
(c) She sees a friend from her childhood.
(d) Her father died.

5. What does Ofri think about her diagnosis in "Merced"?
(a) She wants to have a second opinion.
(b) She thinks she is the smartest doctor.
(c) She is afraid she is wrong.
(d) She feels on top of her profession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maria compare Komunyakaa to?

2. What does the interviewee in "Turning point" want people to remember about the Twin Towers?

3. What does Tan realize after becoming a renowned writer in "Mother Tongue"?

4. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

5. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was McPhee thinking of his mother in the "Silk Parachute"?

2. Explain McPhee's connection to the parachute from the "Silk Parachute."

3. What does Hoagland say is the one thing that can prevent suicide?

4. Do you find truth with McClanahan's essay of the woman writing in the margin and their mutual emotions?

5. How does Tan learn English in "Mother Tongue"?

6. Describe Cofer's father from "Silent Dancing."

7. What does Hoagland say about those who commit suicide in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?

8. Do you agree with Maria's analogy of Komunyakaa from "The Blue Machinery"?

9. Describe Dillard's perception of Rahm in "The Stunt Pilot".

10. Describe what Frazier did with his friends as a child in the essay, "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose."

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