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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 is Sanders thinking about this particular gift from his father in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) His father died.
(b) He wants to build a new shed for his tools.
(c) He wants to teach his son how to use them.
(d) He has a new carpentry job.

2. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?
(a) When she wakes up.
(b) When she sees smoke.
(c) When the firemen come in.
(d) When she hears her screaming children.

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

4. At what two locations does the interviewee in "Turning Point" perform?
(a) The World Trade Center towers and Notre Dame Cathedral.
(b) Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Pantheon.
(c) The Eiffel Tower and the Arc di Triomph.
(d) JFK International Airport and Times Square.

5. What does Hoagland's friend say about the number of suicides committed by men in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) That men are more passive in their emotions.
(b) Men are goal oriented and cannot stand the feeling of failure, so it is an easy escape.
(c) That women usually don't have the means to kill themselves.
(d) That women are stronger than men.

Short Answer Questions

1. When McClanahan's husband leaves her, what does she do?

2. Who of Cofer's family members had problems assimilating into their new neighborhood?

3. What is McPhee reflecting on at the beginning of the essay?

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

5. What seemed to divide most households in Cofer's neighborhood?

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