The Best American Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Best American Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Personal Voice: Westbury Court, In the Kitchen, and Mirrorings.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aldrich think is achieved when manifesting the perfect hairstyle?
(a) Self confidence.
(b) The perfect husband.
(c) Jealousy or envy of others.
(d) Completing an incomplete soul.

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

3. What does Grealy feel she was being praised for during her battle with chemotherapy?.
(a) Hiding the pain.
(b) Being brave.
(c) Surviving the treatment.
(d) Her positive attutude.

4. Pertaining to "The Telephone" where did Anwar Accawi grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) A town in Arizona.
(c) A small town in Jordan.
(d) Europe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Cofer reflecting on the memories of moving to New York City?

3. How is time or age measured in Accawi's village?

4. Who has the worst hair of Aldrich's family?

5. Who of Cofer's family members had problems assimilating into their new neighborhood?

(see the answer key)

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