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

2. Amy Sedaris is fond of
(a) Dressing up and impersonating others.
(b) Having her picture taken for the newspaper.
(c) Gaining and losing weight haphazardly.
(d) Impersonating her father.

3. The Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny makes Sedaris sad because
(a) Skinny is unable to meet Fatty's demands, and ends up friendless.
(b) Skinny always demands money from Fatty.
(c) Fatty always rejects Skinny in the end.
(d) Fatty is unable to meet Skinny's demands and loses his friendship.

4. 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.

5. Sedaris fears his father is not up to the task of caring for his new dog, Sophie, because
(a) She is violent and does not obey him.
(b) He is older now, and she is old and dying.
(c) He is not as attentive to pets as he used to be.
(d) He is older now, and she is young and strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the students in Sedaris' French class intimidated by the teacher?

2. Sedaris' interest in science extended only to

3. While Sedaris has been preoccupied with tanning, his father has been preoccupied with

4. The title Sedaris tried to win for sun-bathing was

5. Sedaris' mother connects most closely with

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