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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Personal Voice: The Blue Machinery of Summer, Book Marks, and Silk Parachute.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?
(a) The desire for love.
(b) Love for poetry.
(c) The same despair she once had.
(d) Passion.

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

4. Where is the doctor from who has success on helping Grealy's disfigurement?
(a) New York City.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Ireland.

5. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?
(a) Space shuttles.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Parachutes.
(d) Fire trucks.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did McClanahan pay?

2. What ethnicity is Lily?

3. Where does Gates go when he leaves America?

4. How does Accawi feel about his village becoming a global community?

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

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