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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 does the orchard owner suggest David take a job?

2. Who is the first disabled student the author rooms with at Kent State?

3. Who is the author's friend who shares a fascination with acting in Naked?

4. Where are David and Pam when one of the wheels falls off her chair?

5. Where does the author's sister work as an after-school job?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does David's coworker do regarding money in "Something for Everyone"? How does David react?

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

4. Why does David befriend the prisoners on staff in "Dinah the Christmas Whore" and what is his conclusion?

5. How does the Sedaris family react to Dinah?

6. What is the author's reaction to Shakespeare?

7. What is David's discovery about the disabled? How does he use it to his advantage?

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

9. What does David fantasize college will be like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Which essay examines the author's homosexuality? What does he use as the comparison/juxtaposition of his homosexuality? Describe the events and themes of the essay.

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