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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 Nick Papanides like to cook with eggplant in "We Get Along"?
(a) Chicken
(b) Snakes
(c) Squirrels
(d) Tomatoes

2. Which of the following is NOT a suggestion the editor of Giantess magazine gives the narrator in "Giantess"?
(a) Focus his stories on the destruction caused by giantesses
(b) Get straight to the turn-on in his writing
(c) Stop writing silly stories
(d) Focus his writing on extremely large women

3. How do most of the customers in "Firestone" react to the narrator's attempts to convert them to his religion?
(a) They are willing to listen, but decline to take action.
(b) They are rude and resistant.
(c) They are open to his ideas.
(d) They ignore him.

4. How do Annette and Randy spend their time together according to the narrator of "The Last You'll Hear From Me"?
(a) Riding the escalator at the mall
(b) Eating at Burger King
(c) Making out in Randy's car
(d) Taking long walks in the park

5. Who did the narrator of "Jamboree" believe would want to "cash in" on his sister's success?
(a) His brother-in-law
(b) Their father
(c) Their step-mother
(d) Their mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did the narrator's parents give for neglecting him in "Parade"?

2. How does Chad's father "punish" him for quitting guitar lessons in "My Manuscript"?

3. What genre is "Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family"?

4. Where does a mother instruct her son to pee in "Santaland Diaries"?

5. In "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter", whose voice do the trees in Glen's fake dream have?

(see the answer key)

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