View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sedaris' attempt to recruit his guitar teacher for his jingle-singing act results in
(a) Comaraderie.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Rejection.
(d) Acceptance.

2. Two extreme facets of Paul's personality are
(a) Studying and reading.
(b) Eating candy and refusing to work.
(c) Drinking Mountain Dew and wearing make-up.
(d) Fighting and swearing.

3. Rather than sports, Sedaris states that he and his fellow speech therapy students were more interested in
(a) Playing video games.
(b) Baking, making scrapbooks, and doing art projects.
(c) Studying and graduating early.
(d) Fighting and lifting weights.

4. What is Lou Sedaris excited about at the start of the essay?
(a) His daughter, Amy, is getting married.
(b) David is going to appear in a magazine article.
(c) His daughter, Amy, is going to appear in a magazine article.
(d) His daughter ,Amy, has lost a considerable amount of weight.

5. Sedaris discovers that most of the boys in speech therapy are
(a) Popular and smart.
(b) Unable to pronounce consonants correctly.
(c) Unlike himself.
(d) Unpopular and uninterested in sports.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sedaris prepare to teach his workshop?

2. Who or what threatens to divide Sedaris' class?

3. What prompts Sedaris to find a job in New York?

4. Lou Sedaris once dreamed that computers would

5. Sedaris first compares his speech therapist to

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bonnie's character in City of Angels.

2. Describe Amy Sedaris' appearance in the much-anticipated magazine article.

3. Why doesn't Sedaris plan any activities for his writing class beyond the first introductions?

4. Why does Sedaris suggest Miss Sampson's "timing was off" when she reveals her human side during their last session?

5. Why does Sedaris seem to object so strongly to his speech therapy sessions?

6. How does Sedaris' mother respond to the music lessons the kids are taking?

7. Why does Sedaris claim to prefer the belief that his television is inhabited by tiny humans over a scientific explanation of its workings?

8. What is ironic about the fact that Bonnie at last finds some "nice New Yorkers" at the Plaza Hotel?

9. How does the speech therapist continue to bring Sedaris' lisp to his attention?

10. Why does Mr. Mancini constantly refer to women and his sexual exploits?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 777 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample