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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Sanders thinking about this particular gift from his father in "The Inheritance of Tools"?
(a) He wants to build a new shed for his tools.
(b) His father died.
(c) He wants to teach his son how to use them.
(d) He has a new carpentry job.

2. What does Fadiman think about the possibility of a published book of emails in "Mail"?
(a) She is excited and will help publish the first one.
(b) She is horrified of the idea of a grammatically incorrect book.
(c) She wishes email were never invented.
(d) She hopes they are never published.

3. What issue is Frazier discussing about the modern world in the essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) Our inability to be idle.
(b) Our need to make more money.
(c) Our obsession with technology.
(d) The need to eat all organic foods.

4. What is Hoagland reflecting on in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) His wife's miscarraige.
(b) Suicide and its pyschological inspiration.
(c) His second divorce.
(d) His childhood.

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

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

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

8. What does Hoagland's friend say about the number of suicides committed by men in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) That women usually don't have the means to kill themselves.
(b) Men are goal oriented and cannot stand the feeling of failure, so it is an easy escape.
(c) That men are more passive in their emotions.
(d) That women are stronger than men.

9. How do Gates and his community cheaply straighten their hair?
(a) They combed it over and over each night.
(b) They had straightening parties and all helped each other.
(c) By using an iron.
(d) By putting grease on it and keeping a stocking or rag on their head for a few days.

10. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" repeatedly refuse?
(a) Profit for his art.
(b) Women.
(c) A TV show.
(d) An agent.

11. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?
(a) She should be more confident.
(b) She shouldn't be a doctor.
(c) She should listen better to her patients.
(d) She is not the master over death.

12. Why would people not take Tan's mother seriously in "Mother Tongue"?
(a) She had a lazy eye.
(b) She was really obese.
(c) She spoke broken English.
(d) She was illiterate.

13. In "Turning Point," what is the interviewee's primary purpose for performing?
(a) To bring recognition to this art.
(b) To scare people.
(c) To expand the boundaries of art.
(d) To raise money to create his own company.

14. What two things does Fadiman compare in "Mail"?
(a) Victorian postage to electronic email.
(b) UPS to FedEx.
(c) Cats to dogs.
(d) Van Gogh to Matisse.

15. What does Frazier think of recreation for adults in his essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?
(a) They should be allowed a certain amount of time to recreate per week.
(b) It is always goal oriented.
(c) They are too old for tackle football.
(d) There is not enough time to recreate with friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?

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

3. Which of the following does Aldrich not mention about her mother's concerns for her hair?

4. Who said, "hair is like life- there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed"?

5. Where does the pilot die in "The Stunt Pilot"?

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