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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Toni obsessed with in "Don's Story"?
(a) Crime stories
(b) Greyhound buses
(c) Don's life
(d) Her daughter

2. What point of view is "Parade" written in?
(a) Third person limited
(b) Third person omniscient
(c) First person
(d) Second person

3. Why does Brandon Tartikoff offer Don a contract for his life story in "Don's Story"?
(a) He feels sorry for Don.
(b) He thinks this is the only thing that will make Don leave him alone.
(c) He believes the story contains everything that makes a story interesting.
(d) He wants to humiliate Don by telling his story in a movie.

4. Who does the narrator of "Music for Lovers" picture attending his imaginary nightclub act?
(a) A famous record executive
(b) His ex-wife, Carol
(c) His daughter, Dawn
(d) Anita O'Day

5. In "Don's Story", who plays Don's mother in the movie version of his life?
(a) Chastity Bono
(b) Don Rickles
(c) Barbra Streisand
(d) Charles Bronson

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margery attend AA meetings in "We Get Along"?

2. Who does the narrator's mother insult at the beginning of "We Get Along"?

3. In "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter", what does Glen picture Drew as in one of his "dreams"?

4. What does the narrator of "The Last You'll Hear From Me" encourage those attending her funeral to throw at Randy and Annette?

5. In "We Get Along", what does the narrator's father record in a notebook hidden in his desk drawer?

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