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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 Grealy feel she was being praised for during her battle with chemotherapy?.
(a) Her positive attutude.
(b) Surviving the treatment.
(c) Being brave.
(d) Hiding the pain.

2. Who said, "hair is like life- there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed"?
(a) Aldrich's mother.
(b) Aldrich's older sister .
(c) Rhonda.
(d) Aldrich.

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

4. Pertaining to "Mother Tongue," what is Tan's profession?
(a) She is a stay at home mom.
(b) She is a writer.
(c) She is a waitress.
(d) She is an accountant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Turning Point," what is the interviewee's primary purpose for performing?

2. What does Grealy look down on?

3. At what two locations does the interviewee in "Turning Point" perform?

4. What was one of the problems Fadiman mentions about 19th century postage in "Mail"?

5. What does McPhee compare his gift to in "Silk Parachute."

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