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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does Frazier seem to take about society's lack of idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) He is hopeful.
(b) He doesn't care either way.
(c) It is maddening.
(d) It is tragic.

2. At what two locations does the interviewee in "Turning Point" perform?
(a) JFK International Airport and Times Square.
(b) The Eiffel Tower and the Arc di Triomph.
(c) Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Pantheon.
(d) The World Trade Center towers and Notre Dame Cathedral.

3. How does Accawi feel about his village becoming a global community?
(a) He is nostalgic for his younger years.
(b) He thinks the village is on a search for a better life that they have yet to find.
(c) He hates everything about it.
(d) He loves the progression his community is undergoing.

4. Who said, "hair is like life- there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed"?
(a) Aldrich.
(b) Rhonda.
(c) Aldrich's older sister .
(d) Aldrich's mother.

5. What does Grealy realize oppressed her all her life?
(a) Doctors telling her she would never look normal.
(b) Her disfigurement.
(c) The anxiety over her appearance.
(d) Not being able to get her driver's license.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pertaining to "Hair" what does Aldrich associate hair to?

2. Why is Tan's way of developing her English language unusual in the work, "Mother Tongue"?

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

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

5. Pertaining to "Book Marks" what parallel is McClanahan making to her own life story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Accawi think about his village becoming a global community in "The Telephone"?

2. Describe Dillard's perception of Rahm in "The Stunt Pilot".

3. Describe what Frazier did with his friends as a child in the essay, "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose."

4. How is the style of historical references to time related to the closeness of Accawi's village?

5. What does Sanders think about tools verses machines in "The Inheritance of Tools"?

6. What does Ehrlich think about Joel in the essay "Spring"?

7. What does Hoagland say about those who commit suicide in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?

8. In "Mirrorings," why does Grealy realize she has had anxiety over her disfigurement?

9. What does Gates recall about Nat King Cole in "In the Kitchen"?

10. If you were Cofer, would you want to have the comfort of having a small neighborhood full of people from your native country?

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