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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Personal Voice: Merced, The Inheritance of Tools, and Mother Tongue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seemed to divide most households in Cofer's neighborhood?
(a) Who had to do the dishes at night.
(b) The desire to be assimilated into a white culture.
(c) Who got the remote control for the TV.
(d) The desire to be back in their homeland.

2. For what did McClanahan pay?
(a) The abortion for the woman her husband impregnated.
(b) Their first house.
(c) Her own abortion.
(d) A new car for her husband.

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

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

5. Why is this gift special to Sanders in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) They make him a man.
(b) He likes antiques.
(c) They built his first house.
(d) He learned his skills right next to his dad with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Aldrich not mention about her mother's concerns for her hair?

2. What does Maria compare Komunyakaa to?

3. Who seems to be the previous library book reader of "Book Marks"?

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

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

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