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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the reverend deliver his sermon in the first essay?
(a) On a Great Dane.
(b) On television.
(c) On horseback.
(d) In the woods.

2. What is Ya Ya's recently deceased pet?
(a) A goldfish.
(b) A cat.
(c) A hamster.
(d) A dog.

3. What does the author say he has to tie over his eyes to sleep at night in the first essay?
(a) A sock.
(b) A sash.
(c) A bandana.
(d) A mask.

4. What is the narrator obsessed with licking in the second essay?
(a) His nose.
(b) A rock.
(c) A light bulb.
(d) A light switch.

5. Who is the protagonist in "The Fugitive," which the author regularly checks in on?
(a) Gerald Kimble.
(b) Jake Agnew.
(c) Horace Walker.
(d) Richard Kimble.

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

7. What is Ya Ya diagnosed with in the third essay?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Arthritis.

8. What has one of the household members taken to using as toilet paper in "True Detective"?
(a) Bath towels.
(b) T-shirts.
(c) Kleenex.
(d) Magazines.

9. At what golf hole does Lisa begin her period in "The Women's Open"?
(a) The fourteenth.
(b) The ninth.
(c) The sixth.
(d) The seventh.

10. How does Ya Ya start a fire while at the community living apartment?
(a) With a coffee pot.
(b) With her iron.
(c) With a magnifying glass.
(d) With a cigarette.

11. Who leaves a large inheritance to the author's mother?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her aunt.

12. What does the narrator say is his best asset in the first essay?
(a) His skin.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His nose.
(d) His hair.

13. How much money is stolen from the author's father's dresser drawer in "True Detective"?
(a) $112.
(b) $200.
(c) $40.
(d) $20.

14. What is the author's father's name?
(a) Michael.
(b) Lou.
(c) David.
(d) John.

15. How old is the narrator when his grandfather died?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color carpet does the author's father install in their living room?

2. Who stabs the author in the eye with a pencil?

3. What does the narrator say his sister Lisa wouldn't know "if he crawled into her lap with a fistful of daisies"?

4. The author writes in the first essay, "It seemed that every Christmas my mother was _______."

5. What is the title of the first essay in Naked?

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