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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 McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?
(a) Passion.
(b) The same despair she once had.
(c) Love for poetry.
(d) The desire for love.

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

3. Pertaining to "Book Marks" what parallel is McClanahan making to her own life story?
(a) The direction of the wind.
(b) Her mother's life.
(c) The underlinings in a library book, made by a previous reader.
(d) Her first daughter's life.

4. Who is William O. Douglas to Conroy in "Think About It"?
(a) His mentor.
(b) A Supreme Court Justice and a friend.
(c) His boss.
(d) His father figure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frazier NOT mention creeping its way into idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

2. For what did McClanahan pay?

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

4. What complicated process is Conroy discussing in "Think About It"?

5. What does McPhee compare his gift to in "Silk Parachute."

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