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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Something for Everyone and Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ya Ya live above?
(a) A Wal-Mart.
(b) A candy store.
(c) A pharmacy.
(d) An arcade.

2. What does the author's mother announce that she has two weeks before Lisa's wedding?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) An aneurysm.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Emphysema.

3. Where does the author's family move when he's a child?
(a) Raleigh, North Carolina.
(b) St. Louis, Missouri.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Cleveland, Mississippi.

4. What does the narrator's mother wish to have done with her remains?
(a) Dumped in the ocean.
(b) Buried in New York.
(c) Cremated.
(d) Buried in a wood box.

5. Where does the author return after his time in Oregon?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money is stolen from the author's father's dresser drawer in "True Detective"?

2. The author writes in the first essay, "It seemed that every Christmas my mother was _______."

3. What is the name of the girl the narrator befriends in college?

4. Who does the author hitchhike cross-country with, who was creating his own college major in Beat literature?

5. What is Ya Ya diagnosed with in the third essay?

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