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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. Sedaris believed he was living art because
(a) He was finally off drugs and moving past performance art.
(b) He was on drugs and deluded by his own sense of self-importance.
(c) He sold silk sceens of footprints.
(d) He allowed a friend to shoot him in the shoulder.

3. Sedaris' mother might be described as
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) An inventor.
(c) A theorist.
(d) Visionary.

4. The question "Which do you like better, State or Carolina?" refers to
(a) Contenders for the Superbowl title.
(b) Two local towns.
(c) University football teams.
(d) Two different titles for one football team.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of the essay, Miss Sampson tricks Sedaris by

3. Sedaris' interest in science extended only to

4. Miss Sampson attempts to illustrate Sedaris' speech problem by

5. Sedaris and his father seem to

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