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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miss Sampson attempts to illustrate Sedaris' speech problem by
(a) Making fun of his lisp at every opportunity.
(b) Over enunciating her 's' sounds.
(c) Insisting Sedaris only use 's' words.
(d) Asking the rest of the class to comment on it.

2. Ironically, Sedaris and his siblings mock the fisherman's tan skin because
(a) It looks fake.
(b) It does not take the same kind of effort to achieve.
(c) It looks hard and leathery.
(d) It has been ruined by saltwater.

3. Sedaris suggests his brother is radically different from his other siblings because
(a) He is a North Carolina native with gentlemanly Southern values.
(b) He is the oldest, and therefore the most conservative.
(c) He is much younger, and a North Carolina native.
(d) He is more refined than they are.

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

5. While Sedaris has been preoccupied with tanning, his father has been preoccupied with
(a) The price of beachfront property.
(b) Scientific questions.
(c) His fear of the ocean.
(d) The Miss Emollient Pageant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris' interest in science extended only to

2. The scientific term Sedaris fears his father will use is

3. Sedaris' father asks him if he knows

4. Sedaris discussed his speech therapy sessions

5. Before Paul's personality fully emerged, his parents tried to interest him in

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