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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. What does the narrator say is his best asset in the first essay?

2. How does the narrator's grandmother break her hip?

3. Who does "Cyclops" refer to in Naked?

4. How does the reverend deliver his sermon in the first essay?

5. What class does the narrator take when he is in junior high?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What leads Ya Ya to need to be cared for? How does this lead to arguments between the author's parents?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use of structure and motif in the essay "True Detective." Describe ways in which the author "sets up" the humor in this piece.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the author's mother and father in the essays. How are these personalities similar? How do they differ?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss where the principle setting is of the earlier essays in Naked. How does the author feel about where he grew up?

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