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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 does "Cyclops" refer to in Naked?
(a) The author's father's friend.
(b) The author's father.
(c) The author's mother.
(d) The author's sister.

2. 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.

3. What does the author's grandmother believe happened to her pet?
(a) It caught on fire.
(b) It committed suicide.
(c) It was run over.
(d) It was eaten by a cat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his best asset in the first essay?

2. What is Ya Ya diagnosed with in the third essay?

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

4. How does the narrator's grandmother break her hip?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was David's father brought up? How is his mother's cooking described?

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

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

4. How does David's father obtain golf tees? Why does he collect them?

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

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

7. What changes David's father's mind about Ya Ya's being taken to a care facility? Where does he take her?

8. What does Miss Chestnut scold David for in "A Plague of Tics"?

9. How does Ya Ya feel about her grandchildren? How do they feel about her?

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

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