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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. Where does Gates go when he leaves America?
(a) Paris.
(b) Zanzibar.
(c) Ecquador.
(d) Morocco.

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

3. How did Accawi's village become part of the global community?
(a) Electricity.
(b) The internet.
(c) Central air conditioning.
(d) The telephone.

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

5. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?
(a) A toy firetruck.
(b) A toy airplane.
(c) A cute outfit with fire trucks on them.
(d) A silk parachute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pertaining to "The Telephone" where did Anwar Accawi grow up?

2. In "Westbury Court," who moves into the apartment down the hall after the lady and her children move out?

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

4. Which female wants to define herself by what she did and how she treated others from the essay "Hair"?

5. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?

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