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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) How heavy it was.
(b) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.
(c) The color.
(d) That it was expensive.

3. Who of Cofer's family members had problems assimilating into their new neighborhood?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Cofer.
(d) Her father.

4. What happened to the boy Ehrlich referred to in her essay, "Spring"?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He moved away to another town.
(c) He died in a car accident.
(d) He died from cancer.

5. How is time or age measured in Accawi's village?
(a) With a stopwatch.
(b) With a sundial.
(c) By it's proximity to other events.
(d) By a calendar.

6. 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) Aldrich.
(d) Rhonda.

7. What ethnicity is Lily?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Korean.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Vietnamese.

8. According to "Silk Parachute," what does McPhee specifically mention about his childhood upbringing?
(a) How much colder winter was.
(b) The trouble he got into and the scoldings he received.
(c) How he and his dad never played catch.
(d) His mother's devotion.

9. Why does Sanders begin a new carpentry project in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) His dad told him to finish what he started.
(b) To get money for the project.
(c) To show is son what he used to do in his free time.
(d) To be close to his dad spiritually.

10. What does Frazier think of recreation for adults in his essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) There is not enough time to recreate with friends.
(b) They should be allowed a certain amount of time to recreate per week.
(c) It is always goal oriented.
(d) They are too old for tackle football.

11. What does Fadiman think about electronic mail in "Mail"?
(a) She loves how fast it is.
(b) She wishes she had a computer so she could use it .
(c) She dreads the invention of the next mail system .
(d) She is horrified that people are forgo grammar and using abbreviations.

12. Pertaining to the "The Inheritance of Tools," who is Sanders thinking of?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mom.
(c) His father.
(d) His first baseball coach.

13. What was the one thing Grealy craved and completely lacked?
(a) A dad.
(b) Positive attention from boys.
(c) The ability to travel.
(d) Money to pay her debts.

14. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?
(a) A cute outfit with fire trucks on them.
(b) A toy firetruck.
(c) A toy airplane.
(d) A silk parachute.

15. Why does Dillard later ride in the airplane in "The Stunt Pilot"?
(a) To see his tricks.
(b) He flew her on her book tour.
(c) To look at some mountains and travel to an island.
(d) They got married and flew together on their honeymoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Gates and his community cheaply straighten their hair?

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

3. What does Komunyakaa not tell his co-workers?

4. What are the benefits of Accawi's village becoming a global community?

5. What feeling does Frazier seem to take about society's lack of idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

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