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

2. What class does the narrator take when he is in junior high?
(a) Home economics.
(b) French.
(c) Shop.
(d) Choir.

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

4. What kind of car has the author's father bought in the sixth essay?
(a) A Mercedes.
(b) A porsche.
(c) An Alfa Romeo.
(d) A BMW.

5. What is the Cyclops' occupation?
(a) DJ.
(b) Shoe salesman.
(c) News editor.
(d) Tie salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author's mother insist on doing with Ya Ya?

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

3. How much does the napkin holder made by the author weigh?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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