The Best American Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Best American Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Sanders thinking about this particular gift from his father in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) He wants to teach his son how to use them.
(b) He has a new carpentry job.
(c) He wants to build a new shed for his tools.
(d) His father died.

2. What ethnicity is Lily?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Korean.

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

4. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?
(a) The same despair she once had.
(b) Love for poetry.
(c) The desire for love.
(d) Passion.

5. Why does Grealy end her boycott?
(a) She has another surgery.
(b) She is asked to be a model.
(c) A boy she has lunch with is not disgusted by her.
(d) She is asked on a date.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grealy look down on?

2. How is time or age measured in Accawi's village?

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

4. What does Aldrich think is achieved when manifesting the perfect hairstyle?

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

(see the answer key)

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