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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Public Sphere: Who Shot Johnny?, Who We Are, What's Wrong With Animal Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is McPhee reflecting on at the beginning of the essay?
(a) A gift.
(b) His marriage.
(c) His mother.
(d) A memory.

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

3. What is Oates reflecting on and comparing in "They All Just Went Away"?
(a) A house and a home.
(b) A cat and dog.
(c) Beef verses chicken.
(d) Her three children.

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

5. What was the verdict on the dry foods taste in "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch"?
(a) It was cold.
(b) It was beef flavored.
(c) It was tasteless.
(d) It was oat flavored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who admired Castro, according to Talese in "Ali in Havana"?

2. Why is this gift special to Sanders in "The Inheritance of Tools"?

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

4. Whose rights is Hearne defending in "What's Wrong With Animal Rights?"?

5. Which female wants to define herself by what she did and how she treated others from the essay "Hair"?

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