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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 hears her screaming children.
(b) When the firemen come in.
(c) When she wakes up.
(d) When she sees smoke.

2. What is the ultimate solution to the type of death discussed in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) Sex.
(b) Love.
(c) A house.
(d) Money.

3. When McClanahan's husband leaves her, what does she do?
(a) Attempts suicide.
(b) Moves to Europe.
(c) Burns all of their pictures.
(d) Runs after his car and trips.

4. Why does the last part of Lopez's journey in "The Stone Horse" have to be traveled on foot?
(a) Tress had fallen in the road.
(b) He ran out of gas.
(c) The road is blocked by boulders.
(d) There is too much ice.

5. What does Grealy boycott?
(a) Going in public.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real problem with Ofri's patient in "Merced"?

2. What does Frazier recall about his childhood in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

3. What new thing happened to Frazier and his friends as they grew up in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

4. Pertaining to "Westbury Court," with what is Danticat struggling?

5. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

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