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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Public Sphere: In Distrust of Movements, Think About It, and Shouting Fire!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fadiman think about the possibility of a published book of emails in "Mail"?
(a) She hopes they are never published.
(b) She is excited and will help publish the first one.
(c) She is horrified of the idea of a grammatically incorrect book.
(d) She wishes email were never invented.

2. For what did McClanahan pay?
(a) Her own abortion.
(b) The abortion for the woman her husband impregnated.
(c) Their first house.
(d) A new car for her husband.

3. What ethnicity is Lily?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Korean.

4. What does Fadiman think about electronic mail in "Mail"?
(a) She is horrified that people are forgo grammar and using abbreviations.
(b) She dreads the invention of the next mail system .
(c) She wishes she had a computer so she could use it .
(d) She loves how fast it is.

5. What does McPhee compare his gift to in "Silk Parachute."
(a) His life up until that point.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. If lack of love is the reason for suicide, what does Hoagland suggest to those who know love?

2. What feeling does Frazier seem to take about society's lack of idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

3. What type of love does Hoagland say is enough to make a man happy in "Heaven and Nature"?

4. What does Frazier recall about his childhood in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

5. What does Komunyakaa not tell his co-workers?

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