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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 is the name of the development that Ya Ya is moved to?

2. What does the author say his mother's profile is featured on in the first essay?

3. Who comes to the house to speak to the author's mother in the second essay?

4. What is the author's youngest brother's name?

5. What has one of the household members taken to using as toilet paper in "True Detective"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does David fantasize about his "real parents" in "Chipped Beef"?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of religion in Sedaris' life and his essays. Which essays broach this subject? How is religion presented by the author?

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss the following terms as they apply to Naked: Autobiography, Memoir, and Essay.

Essay Topic 3

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

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