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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 is the name of the girl the narrator befriends in college?
(a) Sarabeth.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Veronica.
(d) Claudia.

2. What would the author travel with in his fantasy television show?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A talking parrot.
(c) A cat.
(d) A gorilla.

3. What does the author's mother announce that she has two weeks before Lisa's wedding?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) An aneurysm.

4. Who is labeled as an "incomplete quad"?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Dale.
(c) Peg.
(d) Butch.

5. What is the name of the prostitute that Lisa brings back to the Sedaris home?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Dinah.
(c) Ethyl.
(d) Maebelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David's coworker tell the woman whose apartment they're painting about David?

2. Where does the narrator transfer after his first year in college?

3. What does the narrator's mother wish to have done with her remains?

4. Where does the orchard owner suggest David take a job?

5. What is the name of the man whom the author and Veronica worked for picking apples?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David begin to think about people at the end of his hitchhiking days?

2. What does David's mother do after several days of his new way of talking in "Drama Bug"? How does he react?

3. In what way does Peg change at the end of "The Incomplete Quad"?

4. What is the author's reaction to Shakespeare?

5. What does David's coworker do regarding money in "Something for Everyone"? How does David react?

6. What does David's coworker do to try to get David fired? How does this backfire?

7. Who finally hires David in "Something for Everyone"? Who is his coworker?

8. What does David realize at the end of "Drama Bug" regarding his mother?

9. How does the Sedaris family react to Dinah?

10. What are David and his sister's after-school jobs in high school? How does David like his job?

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