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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 reverend deliver his sermon in the first essay?
(a) In the woods.
(b) On a Great Dane.
(c) On television.
(d) On horseback.

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

3. How does the author's father say his friend lost his right hand?
(a) Mowing the lawn.
(b) With a saw.
(c) In the garbage disposal.
(d) Using a hammer.

4. What is the author's teacher's name in the second essay?
(a) Miss Pafunda.
(b) Miss Walton.
(c) Miss Waterman.
(d) Miss Chestnutt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's youngest brother's name?

2. Who does the author's father "dupe" into going to the golf course in essay six?

3. Who receives a BB gun for his 12th birthday?

4. How many siblings does the author have?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why are the narrator's sisters kidnapped in "Chipped Beef"? How do his parents react?

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

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

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