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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Attentive Mind: Turning Point, The Stunt Pilot, and Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Tan's way of developing her English language unusual in the work, "Mother Tongue"?
(a) Her mother taught her.
(b) She stayed after school and worked with her teacher.
(c) She learned to speak different forms in different contexts.
(d) She went to a Chinese school, but their English program was great.

2. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?
(a) When the firemen come in.
(b) When she sees smoke.
(c) When she wakes up.
(d) When she hears her screaming children.

3. What are the benefits of Accawi's village becoming a global community?
(a) More educational opportunities and better pay.
(b) The ability to communicate to other cities.
(c) The chance to meet famous people.
(d) More opportunities to travel.

4. What did Sanders inherit in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) A house.
(b) His dad's carpentry tools.
(c) A car.
(d) An old rocking chair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What thought does the stunt pilot know was possible, but never bothered him in "The Stunt Pilot"?

2. What ethnicity is Lily?

3. Who seems to be the previous library book reader of "Book Marks"?

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

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

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