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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 does the interviewee in "Turning point" want people to remember about the Twin Towers?
(a) Who the Mayor of NYC was when it happend.
(b) How many stories tall they were.
(c) His performance bewteen the two buildings, not the burning rubble.
(d) The date in which they were attacked.

2. Which of the following does Aldrich not mention about her mother's concerns for her hair?
(a) Curling.
(b) Dying .
(c) Washing and drying.
(d) Cutting.

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

4. What does Maria compare Komunyakaa to?
(a) The wind, that moves in nomadic directions.
(b) A man who leaves a woman after he gets what he wanted from her.
(c) A grumpy mechanic.
(d) A wise owl.

5. Which female wants to define herself by what she did and how she treated others from the essay "Hair"?
(a) Aldrich's older sister.
(b) Her youngest sister.
(c) Aldrich.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ehrlich reflecting on in "Spring"?

2. What nationality is Tan in the essay "Mother Tongue"?

3. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?

4. What does Frazier recall about his childhood in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

5. For what did McClanahan pay?

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