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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. Who seems to be the previous library book reader of "Book Marks"?
(a) No one, the book is new.
(b) A child.
(c) A woman.
(d) Her husband's mistress.

2. Pertaining to "Hair" what does Aldrich associate hair to?
(a) Aldrich's best feature.
(b) A woman's personal identity.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Her mother.

3. What is McPhee reflecting on at the beginning of the essay?
(a) A memory.
(b) A gift.
(c) His mother.
(d) His marriage.

4. Why does Grealy end her boycott?
(a) She is asked on a date.
(b) She has another surgery.
(c) She is asked to be a model.
(d) A boy she has lunch with is not disgusted by her.

5. What was the one thing Grealy craved and completely lacked?
(a) Positive attention from boys.
(b) The ability to travel.
(c) Money to pay her debts.
(d) A dad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sanders begin a new carpentry project in "The Inheritance of Tools"?

2. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?

3. What does Sanders say about a tool verses a machine in "The Inheritance of Tools'?

4. What does Tan realize after becoming a renowned writer in "Mother Tongue"?

5. Who does Adlrich recall being obsessed with their hair?

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