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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: stay up late, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Nic's little sister?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Elisha.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Saffron.

2. Whom does David quote as saying, "Home is a holy thing" (67)?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Phyllis Wheatley.

3. Before taking up surfing, Nic had never wanted to go to the beach for what reason?
(a) He had not wanted to show his body.
(b) He had not wanted to get a sunburn.
(c) He had not wanted to get sandy.
(d) He had liked video games better than nature.

4. In what year does David first use marijuana?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1962.

5. David Sheff states in the introduction that he uses what literary device sparingly within the memoir?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Understatement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter 1 begin?

2. After listing a myriad of impressions at which Nic is skilled, David says that Nic's best impression is of whom?

3. What is the name of Nic's little brother?

4. Who owns a small cabin in Inverness, California?

5. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?

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