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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lou Sedaris excited about at the start of the essay?
(a) His daughter ,Amy, has lost a considerable amount of weight.
(b) David is going to appear in a magazine article.
(c) His daughter, Amy, is going to appear in a magazine article.
(d) His daughter, Amy, is getting married.

2. What skill does Sedaris admire in his mother that eludes him?
(a) She can smoke an entire cigarette without taking it out of her mouth.
(b) She can solve his father's equations.
(c) She can explain how a radio works.
(d) She can tan the backs of her ears and her palms.

3. Lou Sedaris busies himself
(a) Chatting with fishermen.
(b) Tanning.
(c) Working equations in the sand.
(d) Smoking.

4. The dog Mr. and Mrs. Sedaris coddled as empty-nesters was
(a) Sadie the cat.
(b) Mumbles, the teddy bear.
(c) Melina, a Great Dane.
(d) Madchen 2, the replacement German Shepard.

5. During his experience as a mover, Sedaris begins to change because
(a) He is always willing to move the attractive women, no matter how disorganized.
(b) He resents customers with too many books or records, and imagines himself an ant completing a task.
(c) He imagines himself the queen ant ordering her inferiors about.
(d) He resents anyone who appears wealthy and organized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts Sedaris to find a job in New York?

2. Sedaris' enjoyment of the ocean was ruined by

3. By way of explanation, Amy Sedaris explains her "bruises" and "sores" by saying

4. Sedaris deals with his new fear of speaking French by

5. Though the teacher ridicules him in the end, Sedaris is proud because

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