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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. Sedaris' first artistic success takes the form of
(a) Two wooden crates filled with garbage.
(b) Toe nail clippings.
(c) A frying pan full of toy soldiers.
(d) A nest of human hair.

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

3. Why are the fishermen interested in Lou Sedaris' equation?
(a) They want to know why he is drawing in the sand.
(b) They want to know how much their property would have been worth today.
(c) They are interested in the number of grains of sand per acre.
(d) They want to know if he is interested in buying property.

4. The irony of the fisherman's position is that
(a) They can no longer afford to live by the beach.
(b) They can understand Lou Sedaris' scientific equations.
(c) They can no longer fish in the ocean.
(d) They are not even trying to be tan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Miss Sampson believes Sedaris lisps because

2. Sedaris describes his guitar teacher as

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

4. Rather than sports, Sedaris states that he and his fellow speech therapy students were more interested in

5. Sedaris discovers that most of the boys in speech therapy are

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