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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 many steps does it take the narrator to walk home from school in the second essay?

3. Where is the author's father's second hiding place?

4. Where does the author hide for his "stakeout" in "True Detective"?

5. Who is the protagonist in "The Fugitive," which the author regularly checks in on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who in David's family is taken to an institution? What effect does this have?

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

3. How does Ya Ya feel about her grandchildren? How do they feel about her?

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

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

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

7. What changes David's father's mind about Ya Ya's being taken to a care facility? Where does he take her?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the events which take place in "Get Your Ya-ya's Out"? What themes does this piece reflect? How does the author describe the settings in this essay?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme, "The Good and Bad of Humanity." How is this theme reflected in several essays? Give examples of persons from the text who represent each.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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