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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 Ofri originally think is the problem with her patient in "Merced?
(a) She has a tumor.
(b) She has aseptic meningitis.
(c) She has leukemia.
(d) She has lyme disease.

2. For what did McClanahan pay?
(a) Her own abortion.
(b) The abortion for the woman her husband impregnated.
(c) A new car for her husband.
(d) Their first house.

3. Pertaining to "Spring," what is Ehrlich recovering from?
(a) Lyme disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Bronchitis.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. Who said, "hair is like life- there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed"?
(a) Aldrich.
(b) Aldrich's mother.
(c) Aldrich's older sister .
(d) Rhonda.

5. Why is this gift special to Sanders in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) He learned his skills right next to his dad with them.
(b) He likes antiques.
(c) They make him a man.
(d) They built his first house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dillard compare the exhaust trail of the plane to in "The Stunt Pilot"?

3. Who does Gates recall having immaculate hair?

4. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?

5. What does Ehrlich see violently shaking and jiggling beneath its surface in "Spring"?

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