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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Attentive Mind: Mail, A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose, Heaven and Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seemed to divide most households in Cofer's neighborhood?
(a) Who had to do the dishes at night.
(b) The desire to be assimilated into a white culture.
(c) Who got the remote control for the TV.
(d) The desire to be back in their homeland.

2. What does Ehrlich see violently shaking and jiggling beneath its surface in "Spring"?
(a) The mountains.
(b) The ocean.
(c) Still and peacefulness.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

3. According to "Silk Parachute," what does McPhee specifically mention about his childhood upbringing?
(a) His mother's devotion.
(b) How he and his dad never played catch.
(c) The trouble he got into and the scoldings he received.
(d) How much colder winter was.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of love does Hoagland say is enough to make a man happy in "Heaven and Nature"?

2. What does Grealy boycott?

3. Who does Adlrich recall being obsessed with their hair?

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

5. Why does Cofer's family move to New York City?

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