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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 Conroy realize after meeting with Judge Hand in "Think About It"?
(a) Some issues are entirely too complicated to be exhausted over by multiple debates and arguments.
(b) That the FBI helps both Judge Douglas and Hand.
(c) That Judge Douglas is corrupt.
(d) That Judge Hand hates the FBI.

2. What is the man mentioned being tried for during World War I in "Shouting Fire!"?
(a) Protesting naked.
(b) Passing out green buttons.
(c) Disturbing the peace.
(d) Passing out pamphlets that opposed the draft.

3. What is Hoagland reflecting on in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) His childhood.
(b) His wife's miscarraige.
(c) His second divorce.
(d) Suicide and its pyschological inspiration.

4. What is Fadiman reflecting on in "Mail"?
(a) Postage expenses.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) The invention of the telephone.
(d) The history of communication.

5. What does Komunyakaa not tell his co-workers?
(a) That he has a terminal disease.
(b) That he is going to graduate school.
(c) That he is in love with their boss.
(d) That he is an illegal citizen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fadiman think about electronic mail in "Mail"?

2. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?

3. What does Frazier think of recreation for adults in his essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

4. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?

5. What ethnicity is Lily?

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