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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 kind of brand-new car was stolen the previous week from a couple in Pamlico in "True Detective"?
(a) A Ford Mustang.
(b) An Alfa Romeo.
(c) A Volkswagon.
(d) A Jeep.

2. The author writes in "True Detective," that to listen to his mother you'd have thought the streets of Raleigh were crawling with what?
(a) Heroin addicts.
(b) Zombies.
(c) Detectives.
(d) Hippies.

3. What is the author's mother's name?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Sharon.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Sarah.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator obsessed with licking in the second essay?

2. What does the author's grandmother refer to his mother as?

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

4. Who does "Ya Ya" refer to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do David's teachers come to his home? What is their impression of his mother?

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

3. What is the second household mystery in "True Detective"? What is the backlash the author finds himself in?

4. Why does the author's mother leave behind a video for Lisa? What is on it?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the first mystery in "True Detective"? How is it solved?

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

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