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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. Miss Sampson asks the previous question in order to
(a) Determine whether or not she will like Sedaris.
(b) Provoke an argument about football.
(c) Get Sedaris talking so she might hear his lisp.
(d) Trick Sedaris into revealing his disdain for sports.
2. Mr. Mancini makes Sedaris uncomfortable by constantly referring to
(a) Jazz musicians.
(b) Popular songs Sedaris does not know.
(c) Men and sex.
(d) Women and sex.
3. Miss Sampson attempts to illustrate Sedaris' speech problem by
(a) Making fun of his lisp at every opportunity.
(b) Insisting Sedaris only use 's' words.
(c) Over enunciating her 's' sounds.
(d) Asking the rest of the class to comment on it.
4. Rather than sports, Sedaris states that he and his fellow speech therapy students were more interested in
(a) Fighting and lifting weights.
(b) Studying and graduating early.
(c) Baking, making scrapbooks, and doing art projects.
(d) Playing video games.
5. What skill does Sedaris admire in his mother that eludes him?
(a) She can explain how a radio works.
(b) She can tan the backs of her ears and her palms.
(c) She can smoke an entire cigarette without taking it out of her mouth.
(d) She can solve his father's equations.
Short Answer Questions
1. While Sedaris has been preoccupied with tanning, his father has been preoccupied with
2. Where music is concerned, Sedaris' father could be described as a
3. What Sedaris admires in his sister Gretchen is
4. During their last meeting together, Sedaris learns that Miss Sampson
5. Sedaris' first artistic success takes the form of
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