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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Something for Everyone and Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color towels does the author's mother replace the old ones with in "True Detective"?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Brown.

2. What does the author's mother run over while taking him home from play practice?
(a) A child.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

3. What do the narrator and his brother come to view their grandmother as?
(a) An ATM machine.
(b) A mummy.
(c) An embarassment.
(d) A clown.

4. What is the name of the patient who was a paranoid Tuscan?
(a) Emily.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Dixie.
(d) Paola.

5. What does the author's mother claim happened to their first cat in the first essay?
(a) It killed a mouse.
(b) It committed suicide.
(c) It loved David.
(d) It caught on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author graduate from college?

2. The author writes in "True Detective," that to listen to his mother you'd have thought the streets of Raleigh were crawling with what?

3. Where does the author tell the person who picks him up hitchhiking that his father is?

4. What inspiring visitor comes to the author's school when he is in ninth grade?

5. Where does the author's father vehemently object to the author moving?

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