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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Today's Special.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sedaris questions
(a) Others inability to feel shame.
(b) His own need for cleanliness.
(c) His own inability to go to the bathroom comfortably in public
(d) His own inability to leave the toilet unflushed, thereby assuming the guilt.

3. Sedaris refuses to order dessert because
(a) It contains non-traditional ingredients like luncheon meat.
(b) He is insulted by the waiter's suggestion that he is counting calories.
(c) It contains fattening creme fraiche.
(d) He cannot pronounce it.

4. Sedaris first compares his speech therapist to
(a) A government agent.
(b) A supermodel.
(c) The devil.
(d) A football player.

5. One aspect of the food that disturbs Sedaris is
(a) That it is piled in an unrecognizable heap.
(b) That it is arranged to look like a face on his plate.
(c) That it is stacked vertically on his plate.
(d) That it is laid out in a horizontal line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris resents his father's approach toward art because

2. In the end, Sedaris decides

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

4. Valencia is

5. Miss Sampson asks the previous question in order to

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