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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. Where is Ehrlich spending the spring in "Spring"?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Florida.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Wyoming.

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

3. Who does Hoagland surprisingly mention dying by a specific way of death in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) Poor people.
(b) Rich people.
(c) Obese people.
(d) Depressed people.

4. What was one of the problems Fadiman mentions about 19th century postage in "Mail"?
(a) It was too expensive to send anything.
(b) No one used street addresses.
(c) The recipient, not the sender had to pay for the postage.
(d) It took too long to send mail.

5. What does Dillard compare the exhaust trail of the plane to in "The Stunt Pilot"?
(a) A bird's tail.
(b) A stroke of a painter's brush.
(c) The brush of a hand.
(d) The wind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From "The Blue Machinery," where does Komunyakaa work during a summer job?

3. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?

4. What happens to change Ofri's state of being in "Merced"?

5. Why does Dillard later ride in the airplane in "The Stunt Pilot"?

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