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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were hair "kinks" a symbol of in Gate's essay, "In the Kitchen"?
(a) That their mom didn't know how to do hair.
(b) That they were poor.
(c) How one's black identity will always be a part of them even if they try to change it.
(d) That they wanted to be famous.

2. Why is Sanders thinking about this particular gift from his father in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) He wants to build a new shed for his tools.
(b) His father died.
(c) He has a new carpentry job.
(d) He wants to teach his son how to use them.

3. What is the lady in "Westbury Court" doing when the firemen come inside her apartment?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Taking a nap.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Taking a shower.

4. Pertaining to "Spring," what is Ehrlich recovering from?
(a) Lyme disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Bronchitis.

5. Pertaining to "Turning Point," who does Chelminski interview?
(a) Philippe Petit.
(b) Sean Penn.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Madonna.

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

7. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" repeatedly refuse?
(a) An agent.
(b) Profit for his art.
(c) Women.
(d) A TV show.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?
(a) She should be more confident.
(b) She is not the master over death.
(c) She should listen better to her patients.
(d) She shouldn't be a doctor.

14. What did Sanders inherit in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) A car.
(b) A house.
(c) His dad's carpentry tools.
(d) An old rocking chair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of love does Hoagland say is enough to make a man happy in "Heaven and Nature"?

2. What does Dillard compare the exhaust trail of the plane to in "The Stunt Pilot"?

3. What does Hoagland's friend say about the number of suicides committed by men in "Heaven and Nature"?

4. What thought does the stunt pilot know was possible, but never bothered him in "The Stunt Pilot"?

5. What is Ehrlich reflecting on in "Spring"?

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