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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Amy Sedaris is fond of
(a) Impersonating her father.
(b) Dressing up and impersonating others.
(c) Having her picture taken for the newspaper.
(d) Gaining and losing weight haphazardly.

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

4. Who or what threatens to divide Sedaris' class?
(a) An older returning student who claimed he was wasting her time.
(b) An asthmatic who protected the smoking rule in class.
(c) The teenage freshmen students.
(d) Sedaris' Pillow Talk segment, where students discussed their personal lives.

5. Miss Sampson believes Sedaris lisps because
(a) He cannot hear the sound of his own voice.
(b) He has a lazy tongue.
(c) He wants to stand out among other students.
(d) He never learned to speak correctly.

6. Mr. Mancini makes Sedaris uncomfortable by constantly referring to
(a) Popular songs Sedaris does not know.
(b) Men and sex.
(c) Women and sex.
(d) Jazz musicians.

7. Why are the fishermen interested in Lou Sedaris' equation?
(a) They want to know if he is interested in buying property.
(b) They want to know how much their property would have been worth today.
(c) They want to know why he is drawing in the sand.
(d) They are interested in the number of grains of sand per acre.

8. What Sedaris admires in his sister Gretchen is
(a) Her talent as a sculptor.
(b) Her own personality.
(c) Her indifference to art.
(d) Her admission to art school.

9. Paul's relationship with his father might be described as
(a) Honest and direct.
(b) Coddling and protective.
(c) Blunt and hurtful.
(d) Callous and indifferent.

10. Facing his lack of artistic talent might mean
(a) Learning a new trade.
(b) Sobering up and moving on.
(c) Admitting his father was right.
(d) Needing more drugs.

11. What skill does Sedaris admire in his mother that eludes him?
(a) She can solve his father's equations.
(b) She can explain how a radio works.
(c) She can smoke an entire cigarette without taking it out of her mouth.
(d) She can tan the backs of her ears and her palms.

12. What adds to Sedaris' tension while he is in the bathroom?
(a) He can hear the others beginning to talk about him outside.
(b) His friend keeps asking him what he is doing in there.
(c) He needs to use the toilet himself.
(d) His friend keeps knocking on the door to hurry him up.

13. What finally convinces Sedaris that the computer might be interesting or enjoyable?
(a) Amy shows him how to use the word processor.
(b) Amy shows him Internet pornography.
(c) His father convinces him that he can work much faster on a computer.
(d) His father tells him how the Internet can connect the world.

14. Sedaris attempts to hide his lisp by
(a) Learning as many s-free words as possible.
(b) Practicing his s-words at home.
(c) Refusing to speak during therapy.
(d) Mispronouncing all his words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lou Sedaris is concerned about Amy's looks because

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

3. By way of explanation, Amy Sedaris explains her "bruises" and "sores" by saying

4. The irony of the fisherman's position is that

5. Instead of the performance piece in the twelfth "moment," Sedaris seems to admire

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