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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 does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?

2. What does Maria compare Komunyakaa to?

3. How did Accawi's village become part of the global community?

4. What is the ultimate solution to the type of death discussed in "Heaven and Nature"?

5. What does Grealy boycott?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the style of historical references to time related to the closeness of Accawi's village?

3. What does Sanders think about tools verses machines in "The Inheritance of Tools"?

4. What happened to Rahm in "The Stunt Pilot"?

5. What does Frazier say about adults and their inability to be idle in his essay, "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

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

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

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

9. In "Westbury Court" why did the mother of the children not realize their was a fire?

10. What does Ofri seem to be most concerned with in the essay "Merced"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List and describe the religious elements in Barry Lopez's "The Stone Horse."

Essay Topic 2

Explain the difference between a top-tier university and what Queenan calls a "middling" university and why people prefer a top-tier school.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Philip Petit from "Turning Point" would say to David Rahm from "The Stunt Pilot"? Consider the risks and artistry in each of their professions.

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