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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. Who does Hoagland surprisingly mention dying by a specific way of death in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) Poor people.
(b) Obese people.
(c) Rich people.
(d) Depressed people.

2. What type of experience does Lopez have when he examines the stone horse in "The Stone Horse"?
(a) A pyschotic response.
(b) A religious one.
(c) Ultimate kindness.
(d) An excited one.

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

4. Why would people not take Tan's mother seriously in "Mother Tongue"?
(a) She was really obese.
(b) She was illiterate.
(c) She spoke broken English.
(d) She had a lazy eye.

5. Pertaining to "Mirrorings," where do Lucy Grealy's doctors find a tumor?
(a) Her knee.
(b) Her brain.
(c) Her cheek.
(d) Her breast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

2. What ethnicity is Lily?

3. Who chastises Komunyakaa for keeping his reasoning for leaving a secret?

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

5. When McClanahan's husband leaves her, what does she do?

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