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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The City of Light in the Dark.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sedaris decides to make his students more comfortable by
(a) Letting them design the class activities.
(b) Allowing them to drink in class.
(c) Allowing them to smoke in class.
(d) Sharing his private life with them.

2. Sedaris justifies viewing soap operas in class by
(a) Arguing that soap operas were an eduring fom of writing.
(b) Arguing that soap operas taught attention to character.
(c) Creating an assignment in which students wrote their own soap operas.
(d) Creating a writing assignment in which students predicted upcoming events.

3. One glaring difference Sedaris notices between watching movies in the U.S and watching them in Paris is
(a) No one needs subtitles in Paris.
(b) No one talks during the movies in Paris.
(c) No one eats during the movies in Paris.
(d) No one knows who he is in Paris.

4. Who or what threatens to divide Sedaris' class?
(a) The teenage freshmen students.
(b) An older returning student who claimed he was wasting her time.
(c) Sedaris' Pillow Talk segment, where students discussed their personal lives.
(d) An asthmatic who protected the smoking rule in class.

5. What changes Sedaris' mind about visiting France for the summer?
(a) The desire to learn French convinces Sedaris to visit France.
(b) The gifts Hugh brings him convince Sedaris to visit France.
(c) The promise of being a local celebrity convinces Sedaris to visit France.
(d) Loneliness convinces Sedaris to visit France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an unusual word Sedaris learned in French?

2. Sedaris says he sounds like an evil baby when speaking French because

3. In this essay, Sedaris' itineraries revolve around

4. Why is Sedaris offered a job teaching a writing workshop?

5. When Sedaris watches American movies in Paris, he

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