1. The Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny makes Sedaris sad because
(a) Fatty is unable to meet Skinny's demands and loses his friendship.
(b) Skinny always demands money from Fatty.
(c) Skinny is unable to meet Fatty's demands, and ends up friendless.
(d) Fatty always rejects Skinny in the end.

2. Sedaris finally recognizes Mr. Mancini as a fellow outsider when
(a) He recognizes that Mancini does not have any talent.
(b) He sees Mancini getting harrassed at the mall.
(c) He sees Mancini shopping in the boys' department for clothes.
(d) He recognizes that Mancini is unhappy in his work.

3. Sedaris justifies viewing soap operas in class by
(a) Arguing that soap operas taught attention to character.
(b) Creating a writing assignment in which students predicted upcoming events.
(c) Creating an assignment in which students wrote their own soap operas.
(d) Arguing that soap operas were an eduring fom of writing.

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

5. When visiting home, Amy tortures her father by
(a) Wearing a fat suit and pretending to be grossly overweight.
(b) Ignoring his questions about her personal life.
(c) Claiming that he is grossly overweight.
(d) Pretending she refused to appear in the magazine article.