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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does the narrator take when he is in junior high?
(a) Home economics.
(b) Choir.
(c) Shop.
(d) French.

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

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

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

5. Who does the author's mother deduce would use a knife to perpetrate a crime?
(a) A chef.
(b) A drug addict.
(c) A burglar.
(d) A child.

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

7. Who does the author say he is considering asking to wax his coins in the first essay?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) The servants.

8. Who becomes Ya Ya's roommate at the private facility?
(a) Mrs. Denardo.
(b) Mrs. Thomson.
(c) Mrs. Eldridge.
(d) Mrs. Wilkinson.

9. What has happened to the narrator's sisters in the first essay?
(a) They ran away.
(b) They were kidnapped.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They joined the circus.

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

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

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

13. What is the title of Sedaris' second essay in Naked?
(a) The Dragon in the Basement.
(b) A Plague of Tics.
(c) The Women's Open.
(d) Chipped Beef.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's tee does the author's father encourage Lisa to go get?

2. What do the narrator and his brother come to view their grandmother as?

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

4. What is the author's mother's name?

5. How many steps does it take the narrator to walk home from school in the second essay?

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