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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 job does the narrator do at his place of after-school employment?

2. Where does the author go to meet his hitchhiking friend after his second year in college?

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

4. Where does the author get an after-school job as a teenager?

5. How much money does David's coworker take from their boss's purse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does David come to believe he must find a job in "Something for Everyone"?

5. What does David fantasize college will be like?

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

7. Describe David's initial reaction to Curly's home.

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

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

10. How does the Sedaris family react to Dinah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use and description of setting in Naked. How does Sedaris create a visual effect upon the reader? What settings are described in great detail?

Essay Topic 2

Make a case for what you feel is the strongest theme throughout the book as a whole. What theme appears in most essays?

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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