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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What home does Ya Ya finally end up at?
(a) Green Gardens.
(b) Mayflower.
(c) Blue Skies.
(d) Mayview.

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

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

4. Who comes to the house to speak to the author's mother in the second essay?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His brother.
(c) His teacher.
(d) His grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money is stolen from the author's father's dresser drawer in "True Detective"?

2. What is the name of the family in the book the author finds in "Next of Kin"?

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

4. What is the author's teacher's name in the second essay?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when David's father visits him in New York?

2. What does David fantasize about his "real parents" in "Chipped Beef"?

3. Who in David's family is taken to an institution? What effect does this have?

4. Who injures the author in "Cyclops"? What is the result?

5. What does David's mother insist he stop doing to the cat? Why?

6. Describe the family's participation at church as detailed in "Chipped Beef."

7. What does David encounter when he returns to Dix Hill?

8. What leads Ya Ya to need to be cared for? How does this lead to arguments between the author's parents?

9. What is the eventual "cure" for David's tics? How?

10. What happens after the golf tournament in "Women's Open"?

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