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

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

3. What does Komunyakaa not tell his co-workers?
(a) That he is going to graduate school.
(b) That he has a terminal disease.
(c) That he is in love with their boss.
(d) That he is an illegal citizen.

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

5. When does the lady in the apartment down the hall in "Westbury Court" realize that there is a fire?
(a) When she sees smoke.
(b) When the firemen come in.
(c) When she hears her screaming children.
(d) When she wakes up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which female wants to define herself by what she did and how she treated others from the essay "Hair"?

2. Why is Cofer reflecting on the memories of moving to New York City?

3. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?

4. What does Grealy boycott?

5. In "Turning Point," what is the interviewee's primary purpose for performing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What importance does Gates see in one's hairstyle, particularly with blacks in "In the Kitchen"?

2. Why do people discriminate against Tan's mother in "Mother Tongue"?

3. Describe the benefits of the penny post in the essay "Mail."

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

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

6. What seems to be Danticat's conflict in the essay "Westbury Court"?

7. Why do you think McClanahan was so willing to ignore her husband's infidelities from the essay "Book Marks"? What acts of hers show it?

8. What does Ofri seem to be most concerned with in the essay "Merced"?

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

10. In "The Turning Point," describe Petit's desire to make tight roping an art form.

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