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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Big Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mancini insists he name his guitar, Sedaris names his "Joan," after
(a) His cousin.
(b) His friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

2. Sedaris and his father seem to
(a) Be angry at each other most of the time.
(b) Have few common interests.
(c) Try to make each other unhappy.
(d) Have an unusually close realtionship

3. Sedaris confesses his desire to perform what songs before an audience?
(a) Pop songs.
(b) Blues classics.
(c) Commercial jingles.
(d) Jazz classics.

4. Sedaris suggests his brother is radically different from his other siblings because
(a) He is much younger, and a North Carolina native.
(b) He is more refined than they are.
(c) He is the oldest, and therefore the most conservative.
(d) He is a North Carolina native with gentlemanly Southern values.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris' father asks him if he knows

2. What prompts Lou Sedaris to enroll his children in music lessons?

3. The irony of the fisherman's position is that

4. Why is Sedaris unable to ignore the problem?

5. The dog Mr. and Mrs. Sedaris coddled as empty-nesters was

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