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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Attentive Mind: Turning Point, The Stunt Pilot, and Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pertaining to "Hair" what does Aldrich associate hair to?
(a) Aldrich's best feature.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Her mother.
(d) A woman's personal identity.

2. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?
(a) A toy firetruck.
(b) A toy airplane.
(c) A cute outfit with fire trucks on them.
(d) A silk parachute.

3. What is McPhee reflecting on at the beginning of the essay?
(a) His mother.
(b) His marriage.
(c) A gift.
(d) A memory.

4. Which female wants to define herself by what she did and how she treated others from the essay "Hair"?
(a) Aldrich's older sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her youngest sister.
(d) Aldrich.

5. What does McClanahan se from the margins of the previous reader?
(a) The desire for love.
(b) Love for poetry.
(c) The same despair she once had.
(d) Passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Ehrlich reflecting on in "Spring"?

3. Pertaining to "Mirrorings," where do Lucy Grealy's doctors find a tumor?

4. In "The Stunt Piolot," why does Dillard's heart flutter?

5. What was McPhee fascinated by as a child?

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