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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. Why is Sedaris offered a job teaching a writing workshop?
(a) The scheduled professor quit at the last moment.
(b) He has teaching experience.
(c) He has been published several times.
(d) He is friends with the department chair.

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

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

4. Which of the following is not an unusual word Sedaris learned in French?
(a) Slaughterhouse.
(b) Bottleneck.
(c) Exorcism.
(d) Lobotomy.

5. Sedaris claims he sees so many movies because
(a) He is too intimidated by the French to do anything else.
(b) He is too lazy to do anything else.
(c) He has not seen most of these films in America.
(d) He has no interest in other attractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris decides to make his students more comfortable by

2. In the end, Sedaris' authority is undermined when

3. When Sedaris watches American movies in Paris, he

4. In this essay, Sedaris' itineraries revolve around

5. How does Sedaris prepare to teach his workshop?

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