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

2. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?
(a) Fire trucks.
(b) Space shuttles.
(c) Parachutes.
(d) Airplanes.

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

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

5. Pertaining to "Mirrorings," where do Lucy Grealy's doctors find a tumor?
(a) Her cheek.
(b) Her knee.
(c) Her breast.
(d) Her brain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Aldrich not mention about her mother's concerns for her hair?

3. Who does Ehrlich mention rejecting when she was younger in "Spring"?

4. What does Fadiman think about the possibility of a published book of emails in "Mail"?

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

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