QUIZ
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What does the author say made her uncomfortable during her speech?
_____ a. the presence of her grandmother
_____ b. her broken English
_____ c. her misquoting her brother
_____ d. her mother was in the audience
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What kind of English did the author speak with her mother?
_____ a. Standard English
_____ b. Conversational English
_____ c. Broken English
_____ d. A mix of English and Chinese
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About whom did the author's mother tell her a story?
_____ a. About a gangster in Shanghai
_____ b. About Franklin D. Roosevelt
_____ c. About Charles de Gaulle
_____ d. About Joseph Stalin
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As a child, how did the author feel about her mother's English?
_____ a. She was indifferent to it.
_____ b. She was ashamed of it.
_____ c. She admired it.
_____ d. She did not understand it.
5. What effect did her mother’s English have on the author?
_____ a. It had no effect.
_____ b. It affected her scores on achievement tests.
_____ c. It affected her ability to speak Chinese.
_____ d. It left her with an accent.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Causal Analysis
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Irwin Shaw
Quiz
1. In what city does the story take place?
_____ a. Chicago
_____ b. San Francisco
_____ c. Los Angeles
_____ d. New York
2. What does Michael do that Frances finds annoying?
_____ a. He propositions women.
_____ b. He looks at women.
_____ c. He sucks his teeth noisily.
_____ d. He was unfaithful to her five times in five years.
3. How does Frances resolve her differences with Michael?
_____ a. She doesn’t really.
_____ b. She divorces him.
_____ c. She agrees to a trial separation.
_____ d. She goes home to her mother.
4. What is the relationship between Michael and Frances?
_____ a. They are living together.
_____ b. She is his mistress.
_____ c. They date.
_____ d. They are married.
5. With whom were Michael and Frances supposed to go to the country?
_____ a. the Joneses
_____ b. the Stevensons
_____ c. the Blinkersmiths
_____ d. the Howards
Money
Victor Contoski
Quiz
1. At first money will seem
_____ a. of no use to a wise person.
_____ b. the only important possession.
_____ c. tame and willing to be domesticated.
_____ d. illusive and unattainable.
2. Money is like an ameba because it
_____ a. makes love in secret only to itself.
_____ b. is a parasite that lives on others.
_____ c. keeps multiplying on its own.
_____ d. is the basis of life.
3. Money will
_____ a. make your friends jealous.
_____ b. popularize you among your friends.
_____ c. make you lose all of your friends.
_____ d. delight your friends.
4. One day money will
_____ a. disappear and leave you bankrupt.
_____ b. no longer have any value to society.
_____ c. bite you gently on the hand.
_____ d. kick you as a strong horse would.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Irving Stone
Quiz
1. The North accused Mary Todd Lincoln of being
_____ a. an outsider.
_____ b. a sell-out.
_____ c. a renegade.
_____ d. a spy.
2. Who committed Mary Todd Lincoln to a sanatorium?
_____ a. her daughter
_____ b. her niece
_____ c. her son
_____ d. her nephew
3. What base and ugly charge was made against Mary Todd Lincoln?
_____ a. that her husband did not love her
_____ b. that she was mad
_____ c. that she wanted the South to win
_____ d. that she was extravagant
4. What caused the beginning of Mary Todd Lincoln’s ill health?
_____ a. the assassination of her husband
_____ b. the death of her mother
_____ c. the death of her son William
_____ d. the Civil War
5. To what popular movement did Mary Todd Lincoln turn for comfort?
_____ a. mesmerism
_____ b. hypnotism
_____ c. jingoism
_____ d. spiritualism
Why We Crave Horror
Stephen King
Quiz
1. Who does the author think is mentally ill?
_____ a. himself
_____ b. his family
_____ c. all of us
_____ d. Southerners
2. What is one reason we go to horror movies?
_____ a. to prove that we can take it
_____ b. to make out
_____ c to see who's in the theater
_____ d. to find air-conditioning comfort
3. Who has to be let out to roll around and scream once in a while?
_____ a. the mother inside us
_____ b. the potential lyncher within us
_____ c. the saint within
_____ d. The frightened inner self
4. To what does the mythic horror movie appeal?
_____ a. the best in us
_____ b. the adult in us
_____ c. the worst in us
_____ d. our imagination
5. According to the author, who needs to be kept fed?
_____ a. the sadist
_____ b. the poet
_____ c. the gators
_____ d. the tigers
Grow Up? Not So Fast
Lev Grossman
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