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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Attentive Mind: Matriculation Fixation, Ali in Havana, and The Disposable Rocket.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?
(a) Passion.
(b) The desire for love.
(c) Love for poetry.
(d) The same despair she once had.

2. Who does Gates recall having immaculate hair?
(a) Nat King Cole.
(b) Martin Luther King.
(c) August Wilson.
(d) His dad.

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

4. What does Cofer NOT mention being in Little Puerto Rico?
(a) Speaking the same language.
(b) People that identity with their culture.
(c) Grocery stores with Puerto Rican food.
(d) Puerto Rican restaurants.

5. What nationality is Tan in the essay "Mother Tongue"?
(a) Korean.
(b) American.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Vietnamese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sanders begin a new carpentry project in "The Inheritance of Tools"?

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

3. What American obsession does Queenan discuss in "Matriculation Fixation"?

4. Why does Grealy end her boycott?

5. What does Grealy feel she was being praised for during her battle with chemotherapy?.

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