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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their last meeting together, Sedaris learns that Miss Sampson
(a) Is leaving to work at another school.
(b) Has quit her job because she feels like a failure.
(c) Has been fired because she could not help the students.
(d) Is aware of his homosexuality.

2. What prompts Lou Sedaris to enroll his children in music lessons?
(a) His attends a rock concert with his children.
(b) He attends a concert for Dave Brubeck and his sons.
(c) He attends a concert for the Von Trapp Family Singers.
(d) He attends a jazz festival with his children.

3. What passion does Sedaris' father attempt to share with his children?
(a) His love of guitar.
(b) His love of quartets.
(c) His love of jazz.
(d) His love of North Carolina.

4. Sedaris resents his father's approach toward art because
(a) He wants to be like his father, but cannot be.
(b) He knows his father's talent has not passed on to him.
(c) It seems to come easily to his father, yet he does not invest in it.
(d) Art eludes both him and his father, but his father is viewed as an artist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris confesses his desire to perform what songs before an audience?

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

3. Lou Sedaris busies himself

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

5. What instrument does Sedaris' father choose for him?

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