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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the end, Sedaris' authority is undermined when
(a) He refuses to answer a student's question about his salary.
(b) He allows a student to teach the class.
(c) He admits how much money he is paid to teach the class
(d) He admits that he has never been published.

2. The title Sedaris tried to win for sun-bathing was
(a) Miss Emollient.
(b) Miss Sunscreen.
(c) Miss Skin Cancer.
(d) Miss Sunburn.

3. One reason Sedaris resists the computer is
(a) He likes travelling with the typewriter.
(b) He believes the computer cannot translate his words correctly.
(c) He likes to be able to physically correct his mistakes using Liquid Paper.
(d) He likes to see the physical product of his work, as he does with a typewriter.

4. The title The Youth In Asia applies to
(a) Euthanizing pets and the Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny.
(b) Sedaris' experiences living with a pet in Japan.
(c) Sedaris' dogs, Fatty and Skinny.
(d) Euthanizing pets and adopting new ones.

5. Who or what threatens to divide Sedaris' class?
(a) Sedaris' Pillow Talk segment, where students discussed their personal lives.
(b) An older returning student who claimed he was wasting her time.
(c) The teenage freshmen students.
(d) An asthmatic who protected the smoking rule in class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris compares his father's most recent dog, Sophie, to

2. Before leaving for The Plaza, Sedaris warns Bonnie that

3. Sedaris wonders at the way Paul and his father

4. Lou Sedaris once dreamed that computers would

5. What is Lou Sedaris excited about at the start of the essay?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Sedaris' parents described differently in the chapter?

2. What is ironic about the fact that Bonnie at last finds some "nice New Yorkers" at the Plaza Hotel?

3. How are Valencia and Patrick different?

4. How does Sedaris' mother respond to the music lessons the kids are taking?

5. Why does Sedaris feel his father admired jazz so much as a young man?

6. Why does Sedaris believe his his parents are so lenient with Melina, the Great Dane?

7. What attributes of Paul's relationship with his father seem to balance out his directness and crude behavior?

8. Why does Sedaris claim he lives in constant fear as Mr. Sedaris?

9. Why does Sedaris feel the need to offer a comment to the final performance artist he mentions in the essay before he leaves?

10. What is significant about the title Go Carolina?

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