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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Two extreme facets of Paul's personality are
(a) Studying and reading.
(b) Eating candy and refusing to work.
(c) Fighting and swearing.
(d) Drinking Mountain Dew and wearing make-up.

2. Why is Sedaris unable to ignore the problem?
(a) He is obsessive about cleanliness.
(b) Everyone else knows he has been in the bathroom.
(c) Everyone else has already tried to clean it up an failed.
(d) He feels guilty about leaving a mess behind for others to clean up.

3. Where music is concerned, Sedaris' father could be described as a
(a) Dreamer.
(b) Realist.
(c) Skeptic.
(d) Professional.

4. What adds to Sedaris' tension while he is in the bathroom?
(a) His friend keeps asking him what he is doing in there.
(b) His friend keeps knocking on the door to hurry him up.
(c) He needs to use the toilet himself.
(d) He can hear the others beginning to talk about him outside.

5. Before Paul's personality fully emerged, his parents tried to interest him in
(a) Girls and dating.
(b) Math and science.
(c) Writing and painting.
(d) Music and sports.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris' attempt to recruit his guitar teacher for his jingle-singing act results in

2. Sedaris' mother connects most closely with

3. The scientific term Sedaris fears his father will use is

4. Sedaris' interest in science extended only to

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

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