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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator's sister, Vicki aspire to be when she was younger? ("Jamboree")
(a) A designer
(b) A dancer
(c) A singer
(d) A record producer

2. Where does Glen park while shopping at Food Carnival in "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter"?
(a) In the rear of the store
(b) In a tow zone
(c) In a handicapped parking space
(d) In the Dave's Kwik Stop parking lot

3. Why does the narrator begin cleaning bathrooms in "Firestone"?
(a) Customers complained of their filth
(b) To teach himself humility
(c) He is incapable of pumping gas
(d) Carlton orders him to do so

4. In "We Get Along", why is Evelyne obsessed with the initials W.S.?
(a) They belong to her dead husband.
(b) They belong to a man she left to marry the narrator's father.
(c) They belong to a woman her husband had an affair with.
(d) They belong to her son.

5. Why is the author uncomfortable washing the blinds in the bathroom with G.L. in "The Curly Kind"?
(a) The bathroom is extremely small.
(b) The cleaning chemicals will make G.L. sick.
(c) G.L. is naked.
(d) G.L. is watching television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator change his elf name to when he has bad days at work in "Santaland Diaries"?

2. Why does the narrator of "Music for Lovers" want to remove his uvula?

3. What did Nick Papanides like to cook with eggplant in "We Get Along"?

4. What is Mrs. Toni obsessed with in "Don's Story"?

5. What does the narrator of "The Last You'll Hear From Me" collect?

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