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

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

3. Who wanted to permanently involve America in foreign affairs with the League of Nations in "Who Are We"?
(a) FDR .
(b) George Bush.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Richard Nixon.

4. Pertaining to "Silent Dancing" from what place does Cofer and her family immigrate?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Costa Rica.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Ecquador.

5. Why would people not take Tan's mother seriously in "Mother Tongue"?
(a) She had a lazy eye.
(b) She spoke broken English.
(c) She was illiterate.
(d) She was really obese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sanders say about a tool verses a machine in "The Inheritance of Tools'?

2. Pertaining to "Merced," what is Ofri's patients name?

3. What happens to change Ofri's state of being in "Merced"?

4. What new thing happened to Frazier and his friends as they grew up in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

5. What does Fadiman think about the possibility of a published book of emails in "Mail"?

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