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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what golf hole does Lisa begin her period in "The Women's Open"?

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the sanitarium in Raleigh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Make a case for what you feel is the strongest theme throughout the book as a whole. What theme appears in most essays?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's fascination with hitchhiking in the essays. What is it about this activity that attracts him? What is his final conclusion regarding hitchhiking? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss "Dinah the Christmas Whore." What events take place in this essay? What lesson does the author learn?

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