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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. What does Grealy realize oppressed her all her life?
(a) Her disfigurement.
(b) Not being able to get her driver's license.
(c) The anxiety over her appearance.
(d) Doctors telling her she would never look normal.

2. Pertaining to "Silent Dancing" from what place does Cofer and her family immigrate?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) Ecquador.

3. From "The Stunt Pilot" what is the name of the stunt pilot Dillard writes about?
(a) Davis Ronn.
(b) Dave Rhine.
(c) Dave Rahm.
(d) Davis Rahm.

4. Why would people not take Tan's mother seriously in "Mother Tongue"?
(a) She spoke broken English.
(b) She was illiterate.
(c) She had a lazy eye.
(d) She was really obese.

5. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?
(a) She should be more confident.
(b) She should listen better to her patients.
(c) She shouldn't be a doctor.
(d) She is not the master over death.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From "The Blue Machinery," where does Komunyakaa work during a summer job?

4. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?

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

(see the answer key)

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