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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 author start a campaign to revive in North Carolina?

2. What inspiring visitor comes to the author's school when he is in ninth grade?

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

4. What is the name of the man whom the author and Veronica worked for picking apples?

5. What does C.O.G. stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do David and his sister go in "I Like Guys"? Who do they befriend?

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

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

4. What does David begin to think about people at the end of his hitchhiking days?

5. What does David fantasize college will be like?

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

7. What does David realize at the end of "Drama Bug" regarding his mother?

8. How does the Sedaris family react to Dinah?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of "Imagination versus Reality" in the essays of Naked. How does this theme carry across into different stories?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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