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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Get Yer Ya-ya's Out and Next of Kin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What home does Ya Ya finally end up at?
(a) Green Gardens.
(b) Mayview.
(c) Mayflower.
(d) Blue Skies.

2. How does the reverend deliver his sermon in the first essay?
(a) On television.
(b) On horseback.
(c) In the woods.
(d) On a Great Dane.

3. Where was the narrator/author born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Queens, New York.
(d) Endicott, New York.

4. Where does the author's family move when he's a child?
(a) Raleigh, North Carolina.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(d) St. Louis, Missouri.

5. What does the author's mother claim happened to their first cat in the first essay?
(a) It loved David.
(b) It caught on fire.
(c) It killed a mouse.
(d) It committed suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ya Ya diagnosed with in the third essay?

2. What is the name of the family in the book the author finds in "Next of Kin"?

3. What does the author refer to his minister as in the first essay?

4. What has happened to the narrator's sisters in the first essay?

5. What do the narrator and his brother come to view their grandmother as?

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