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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Attentive Mind: No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch, The Stone Horse, and They All Just Went Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?
(a) When she sees smoke.
(b) When she hears her screaming children.
(c) When the firemen come in.
(d) When she wakes up.

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

3. Pertaining to the "The Inheritance of Tools," who is Sanders thinking of?
(a) His first baseball coach.
(b) His father.
(c) His mom.
(d) His grandfather.

4. What issue is Frazier discussing about the modern world in the essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) The need to eat all organic foods.
(b) Our need to make more money.
(c) Our obsession with technology.
(d) Our inability to be idle.

5. If lack of love is the reason for suicide, what does Hoagland suggest to those who know love?
(a) To give love to anyone they meet.
(b) To remember those moments forever.
(c) Cherish it .
(d) To reconsider how they live their life.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did McClanahan pay?

2. What is Hoagland reflecting on in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?

3. What was the one thing Grealy craved and completely lacked?

4. What were hair "kinks" a symbol of in Gate's essay, "In the Kitchen"?

5. What does Grealy feel she was being praised for during her battle with chemotherapy?.

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