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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 Komunyakaa become close with where he works?
(a) Fred and Laura.
(b) Lily.
(c) Frank.
(d) Frank and Lily.

2. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) That it was expensive.
(b) The color.
(c) How heavy it was.
(d) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.

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

4. Pertaining to "In the Kitchen," what is Gates reflecting on?
(a) Black hairstyles.
(b) Black athletes.
(c) His childhood home.
(d) His mother's cooking.

5. Where is the Quechan stone monument in "The Stone Horse"?
(a) Next to Yosimite National Park.
(b) The California Dessert.
(c) Close to the Grand Canyon.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

2. What is the main sign that McClanahan's first marriage is doomed to sadness?

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

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

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

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