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

2. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) That it was expensive.
(b) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.
(c) How heavy it was.
(d) The color.

3. Who said, "hair is like life- there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed"?
(a) Aldrich's older sister .
(b) Aldrich.
(c) Aldrich's mother.
(d) Rhonda.

4. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?
(a) Tight rope walker.
(b) Mayor of NYC.
(c) Jump ropist.
(d) Conduct the Atlanta Symphony.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What ethnicity is Lily?

4. Why is Tan's way of developing her English language unusual in the work, "Mother Tongue"?

5. Where is the doctor from who has success on helping Grealy's disfigurement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Grealy respond to pain in the essay "Mirrorings"?

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

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

6. Do you think Ofri realizes she cannot have control over life or death in the essay "Merced"?

7. What does Gates recall about Nat King Cole in "In the Kitchen"?

8. Do you agree with Maria's analogy of Komunyakaa from "The Blue Machinery"?

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

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

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