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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. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.
(b) How heavy it was.
(c) That it was expensive.
(d) The color.

2. How is time or age measured in Accawi's village?
(a) With a sundial.
(b) By a calendar.
(c) With a stopwatch.
(d) By it's proximity to other events.

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

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

5. Who does Gates recall having immaculate hair?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) August Wilson.
(c) His dad.
(d) Nat King Cole.

Short Answer Questions

1. When McClanahan's husband leaves her, what does she do?

2. What question is Danticat asking at the end of the essay, "Westbury Court"?

3. What is the main sign that McClanahan's first marriage is doomed to sadness?

4. Where does Gates go when he leaves America?

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

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