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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Frazier recall about his childhood in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) Camping and fishing.
(b) Playing, exploring, and building all through the woods.
(c) Cutting down a tree.
(d) Making homemade biscuits.

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

6. Pertaining to "The Telephone" where did Anwar Accawi grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) A town in Arizona.
(c) Europe.
(d) A small town in Jordan.

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

9. Where is the doctor from who has success on helping Grealy's disfigurement?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Scotland.
(d) New York City.

10. Why does Cofer's family move to New York City?
(a) To have a better life.
(b) They were restationed in the Army.
(c) They were running from the country's government.
(d) So Cofer's brother could play baseball.

11. Pertaining to "Mother Tongue," what is Tan's profession?
(a) She is a waitress.
(b) She is a stay at home mom.
(c) She is a writer.
(d) She is an accountant.

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

13. What does Maria compare Komunyakaa to?
(a) A wise owl.
(b) The wind, that moves in nomadic directions.
(c) A grumpy mechanic.
(d) A man who leaves a woman after he gets what he wanted from her.

14. What does Frazier NOT mention creeping its way into idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) Complaining about wives or girlfriends.
(b) Complaing about business.
(c) Discussing children.
(d) Comparing salaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Grealy realize oppressed her all her life?

3. What does the interviewee in "Turning point" want people to remember about the Twin Towers?

4. In Mother Tongue, who always made sense to Tan, even if the speech was grammatically incorrect?

5. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?

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