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

2. Pertaining to "In the Kitchen," what is Gates reflecting on?
(a) Black hairstyles.
(b) His mother's cooking.
(c) His childhood home.
(d) Black athletes.

3. What was the one thing Grealy craved and completely lacked?
(a) A dad.
(b) Positive attention from boys.
(c) Money to pay her debts.
(d) The ability to travel.

4. Who does Komunyakaa become close with where he works?
(a) Fred and Laura.
(b) Frank.
(c) Frank and Lily.
(d) Lily.

5. Pertaining to "Book Marks" what parallel is McClanahan making to her own life story?
(a) The direction of the wind.
(b) Her first daughter's life.
(c) The underlinings in a library book, made by a previous reader.
(d) Her mother's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who chastises Komunyakaa for keeping his reasoning for leaving a secret?

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

3. What ethnicity is Lily?

4. How does Accawi feel about his village becoming a global community?

5. What does the interviewee in "Turning point" want people to remember about the Twin Towers?

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