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

2. What new thing happened to Frazier and his friends as they grew up in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) They began to feel guilty when they were not being productive.
(b) They all grew apart and weren't friends anymore.
(c) They started to like girls.
(d) They realized being lazy was what they should do for a living.

3. Why does the last part of Lopez's journey in "The Stone Horse" have to be traveled on foot?
(a) The road is blocked by boulders.
(b) There is too much ice.
(c) Tress had fallen in the road.
(d) He ran out of gas.

4. What does Ofri originally think is the problem with her patient in "Merced?
(a) She has leukemia.
(b) She has a tumor.
(c) She has aseptic meningitis.
(d) She has lyme disease.

5. What thought does the stunt pilot know was possible, but never bothered him in "The Stunt Pilot"?
(a) That he could die flying while performing his tricks.
(b) That his mom hated the profession he chose.
(c) That Dillard loved Rahm.
(d) That Dillard only wrote this story for work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things does Fadiman compare in "Mail"?

2. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?

3. What ethnicity is Lily?

4. What does Ehrlich see violently shaking and jiggling beneath its surface in "Spring"?

5. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?

(see the answer key)

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