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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say he wanted a home with, as opposed to a fence?
(a) A fortress.
(b) A lion.
(c) A dungeon.
(d) A moat.

2. How many siblings does the author have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

6. What does Lisa complain is hurting her in "The Women's Open"?
(a) Her neck.
(b) Her arm.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her back.

7. Where does the author's family move when he's a child?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) St. Louis, Missouri.
(c) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(d) Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

9. Which sibling of the author's holds an imaginary after school class in "Next of Kin"?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Lisa.
(c) Tiffany.
(d) Amy.

10. What color carpet does the author's father install in their living room?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

11. The author writes in "True Detective," that to listen to his mother you'd have thought the streets of Raleigh were crawling with what?
(a) Detectives.
(b) Heroin addicts.
(c) Zombies.
(d) Hippies.

12. What kind of car has the author's father bought in the sixth essay?
(a) A porsche.
(b) A BMW.
(c) A Mercedes.
(d) An Alfa Romeo.

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

14. What does the narrator say his sister Lisa wouldn't know "if he crawled into her lap with a fistful of daisies"?
(a) A sensitive loner.
(b) A fugitive.
(c) A criminal.
(d) A true detective.

15. What denomination is the money in Lou Sedaris' dresser drawer?
(a) Twenties.
(b) Silver dollars.
(c) Tens.
(d) One-dollar bills.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what golf hole does Lisa begin her period in "The Women's Open"?

2. Where is the author's father's second hiding place?

3. Who becomes Ya Ya's roommate at the private facility?

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

5. What is the title of Sedaris' second essay in Naked?

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