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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. Who stabs the author in the eye with a pencil?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Tiffany.
(c) Amy.
(d) Lisa.

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

3. What is the author's youngest brother's name?
(a) Lou.
(b) Paul.
(c) Jason.
(d) John.

4. How does the narrator's grandmother break her hip?
(a) She fell in the shower.
(b) She fell downstairs.
(c) She was hit by a truck.
(d) She tripped over her cat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author's father store his money in the dresser?

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

3. What is the name of the church the author speaks of in the first essay?

4. What does the author say he wanted a home with, as opposed to a fence?

5. Who does the author's father say that Ya Ya found dead in the middle of the road?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what the title, "Next of Kin" refers to.

3. How does "Next of Kin" become passed through the family? What finally happens to it?

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

5. What does Lisa complain about in "Women's Open"? How does her father react?

6. What does "Dix Hill" refer to? Why is this fascinating to the author?

7. Why does David discover his mother sobbing in the bathroom in "Chipped Beef"? What is his consolation?

8. When does Ya Ya die? How does the family react?

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

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

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