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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. Where are the author and his sister sent to summer camp in "I Like Guys"?

2. What does David's boss find him doing?

3. Where does the author end up riding much of the way on his bus trip to Oregon?

4. What does David figure out that Uta is?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Dinah and what does Lisa say upon seeing her?

3. How does the Sedaris family react to Dinah?

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

5. Where is David in the beginning of C.O.G.? How pleasant is this trip?

6. How does David's friendship develop in "I Like Guys"?

7. What is David's reaction to San Francisco? How long is he there?

8. How does the author describe his and others' behavior in trying to hide their homosexuality?

9. Where does David live in college? Why? Who does he live with?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the essay "Chipped Beef" in terms of theme, setting, stylistic elements, and fantasy.

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

Discuss the overriding theme of "family." What essays imbue this theme? How?

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