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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Season's Greetings", what television show does Khe Sahn learn most of her English from?
(a) Sesame Street
(b) American Idol
(c) One Life to Live
(d) MTV Cribs

2. Who was Lena Payne in "The Curly Kind"?
(a) A nanny in the author's apartment complex
(b) A maid in the author's apartment complex
(c) The author's mother
(d) The author's childhood housekeeper

3. Who does Sedaris impersonate singing "Away in the Manger" while working with Santa Santa in "Santaland Diaries"?
(a) Etta James
(b) Billie Holiday
(c) Bob Hope
(d) Santa Santa

4. According to Jocelyn Dunbar in "Season's Greetings...", who is the most intelligent of her children"
(a) Jackelyn
(b) Khe Sahn
(c) Kevin
(d) Kyle

5. What does Sedaris think every male reader of "Giantess" longs for?
(a) Punishment
(b) A woman
(c) Size
(d) Infancy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mrs. Dunbar, supposedly, when Don is killed in "Season's Greetings..."?

2. What does Sedaris notice happens to the giantess characters in the stories as they grow in "Giantess"?

3. Who is the narrator of "Barrel Fever"?

4. What is the Magic Star in "Santaland Diaries"?

5. What game do the narrator and his siblings play during Christmas in "Diary of a Smoker"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother give him before she dies in "Barrel Fever"? Why does she give him this gift?

2. Describe Kyle Dunbar in "Season's Greetings to Our Family and Friends".

3. Describe "the Walrus" in "Santaland Diaries".

4. Which elf duty is the narrator's least favorite in "Santaland Diaries"? Why does he feel this way?

5. Describe Dolph's confrontation with Alicia Cunningham in "Barrel Fever".

6. How does the narrator of "Diary of A Smoker" feel about smoking?

7. Why is Jocelyn Dunbar suspected of murdering Don and framing Khe Sahn in "Season's Greetings..."?

8. Describe the scene in Macy's on Christmas Eve in "Santaland Diaries".

9. Describe the narrator's elf costume in "Santaland Diaries".

10. What story does the narrator of "Giantess" think he and Lili should tell the man whose plate they broke?

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