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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 are the benefits of Accawi's village becoming a global community?
(a) More opportunities to travel.
(b) More educational opportunities and better pay.
(c) The chance to meet famous people.
(d) The ability to communicate to other cities.

2. Why does Grealy end her boycott?
(a) She is asked to be a model.
(b) She has another surgery.
(c) She is asked on a date.
(d) A boy she has lunch with is not disgusted by her.

3. Who has the worst hair of Aldrich's family?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Aldrich.
(c) Her older sister.
(d) Aldrich's youngest sister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Accawi's village become part of the global community?

2. What does Fadiman think about electronic mail in "Mail"?

3. What does Frazier recall about his childhood in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

4. Pertaining to "Merced," what is Ofri's patients name?

5. What does Cofer NOT mention being in Little Puerto Rico?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fadiman say about email in the essay "Mail"?

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

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

4. In "The Blue Machinery," why does Komunyakaa not tell his co-workers that he is going to graduate school in the fall?

5. Do you find truth with McClanahan's essay of the woman writing in the margin and their mutual emotions?

6. What does Frazier say about adults and their inability to be idle in his essay, "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

7. In "Westbury Court" why did the mother of the children not realize their was a fire?

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

9. Why was McPhee thinking of his mother in the "Silk Parachute"?

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

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