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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pertaining to "Spring," what is Ehrlich recovering from?

2. What happened to the boy Ehrlich referred to in her essay, "Spring"?

3. What is the lady in "Westbury Court" doing when the firemen come inside her apartment?

4. How does Accawi feel about his village becoming a global community?

5. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 How is the style of historical references to time related to the closeness of Accawi's village?

4. How does Tan learn English in "Mother Tongue"?

5. Why does Sanders place such importance on tools in the essay, "The Inheritance of Tools"?

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

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

8. Explain McPhee's connection to the parachute from the "Silk Parachute."

9. 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?

10. Describe Cofer's father from "Silent Dancing."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Considering "The Telephone" and "Mail," compare and contrast the benefits of life without the invention of both the telephone and e-mail. How do you think our society would be different without technological advances like cell phones or e-mail?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the role of the parent in "Silk Parachute" and "The Inheritance of Tools" are similar and different. Does one essay place more importance on the parent?

Essay Topic 3

"Exquisite Corpse," by Ashraf Rushdy discusses the photography of African Americans that had been lynched. If James Byrd's lynching had been photographed, how would the country's reaction have compared to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955?

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