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

2. The author writes in the first essay, "It seemed that every Christmas my mother was _______."
(a) Pregnant.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Remarrying.
(d) Crying.

3. How does the author's father say his friend lost a foot?
(a) Using a saw.
(b) Getting struck by lightning.
(c) Driving.
(d) Mowing the lawn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What home does Ya Ya finally end up at?

3. What is the name of the author's father's friend with the missing eye?

4. What does the author refer to his minister as in the first essay?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does David do in order to clear his name in "True Detective"?

5. What does David's father warn his children about, and how?

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

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

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

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

10. What is David's father's obsession? Where does he take them in "Women's Open"?

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