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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. What is Hoagland reflecting on in the essay "Heaven and Nature"?

2. What does Ofri ultimately realize from her patient in "Merced"?

3. Pertaining to "Turning Point," who does Chelminski interview?

4. Who does Gates recall having immaculate hair?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. Describe Aldrich's mother from the essay "Hair."

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

8. What happened to Rahm in "The Stunt Pilot"?

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

10. Describe Dillard's perception of Rahm in "The Stunt Pilot".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the common reason that Wills mentions in "The Dramaturgy of Death" that people commit suicide.

Essay Topic 2

Think about "Hair" by Marcia Aldrich. Do you agree or disagree that "hair, is like life--there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed".

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the tangible and intangible role of human existence in the essay "Spring" by Gretel Ehrlich. What and who does Ehrlich mention as she reflects the significance of humans?

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