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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Gates and his community cheaply straighten their hair?
(a) By putting grease on it and keeping a stocking or rag on their head for a few days.
(b) By using an iron.
(c) They had straightening parties and all helped each other.
(d) They combed it over and over each night.

2. What does Fadiman think about the possibility of a published book of emails in "Mail"?
(a) She wishes email were never invented.
(b) She is excited and will help publish the first one.
(c) She is horrified of the idea of a grammatically incorrect book.
(d) She hopes they are never published.

3. What is the ultimate solution to the type of death discussed in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) A house.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Money.

4. What does Ehrlich see violently shaking and jiggling beneath its surface in "Spring"?
(a) Still and peacefulness.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

5. What does Grealy boycott?
(a) Boys.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Going in public.
(d) Chemotherapy.

6. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?
(a) Tight rope walker.
(b) Jump ropist.
(c) Conduct the Atlanta Symphony.
(d) Mayor of NYC.

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

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

9. What does Grealy feel she was being praised for during her battle with chemotherapy?.
(a) Surviving the treatment.
(b) Her positive attutude.
(c) Hiding the pain.
(d) Being brave.

10. Pertaining to "Merced," what is Ofri's patients name?
(a) Mercedes.
(b) Ava.
(c) Lexus.
(d) Leah.

11. Why is Cofer reflecting on the memories of moving to New York City?
(a) Her father died.
(b) She moved away.
(c) She sees a friend from her childhood.
(d) She watches an old home video.

12. If lack of love is the reason for suicide, what does Hoagland suggest to those who know love?
(a) To reconsider how they live their life.
(b) To remember those moments forever.
(c) Cherish it .
(d) To give love to anyone they meet.

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

14. Who does Adlrich recall being obsessed with their hair?
(a) Her older sister.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her best friend.

15. What happens to change Ofri's state of being in "Merced"?
(a) Her patient dies at home.
(b) Her patient changes doctors because Ofri misdiagnosed her.
(c) Her patient comes in completely cured.
(d) Her patient becomes brain dead and will not survive another week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real problem with Ofri's patient in "Merced"?

2. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

3. What is McPhee reflecting on at the beginning of the essay?

4. Pertaining to "Mirrorings," where do Lucy Grealy's doctors find a tumor?

5. What nationality is Tan in the essay "Mother Tongue"?

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