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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through True Detective and Dix Hill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author's father say his friend lost a foot?
(a) Getting struck by lightning.
(b) Using a saw.
(c) Mowing the lawn.
(d) Driving.

2. What is the Cyclops' occupation?
(a) News editor.
(b) DJ.
(c) Tie salesman.
(d) Shoe salesman.

3. How does the author's father say his friend lost his right hand?
(a) Mowing the lawn.
(b) With a saw.
(c) Using a hammer.
(d) In the garbage disposal.

4. How does Ya Ya start a fire while at the community living apartment?
(a) With a coffee pot.
(b) With a cigarette.
(c) With a magnifying glass.
(d) With her iron.

5. What kind of brand-new car was stolen the previous week from a couple in Pamlico in "True Detective"?
(a) A Ford Mustang.
(b) An Alfa Romeo.
(c) A Volkswagon.
(d) A Jeep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has one of the household members taken to using as toilet paper in "True Detective"?

2. What does the narrator's father find in his room when he searches it?

3. The author writes in "True Detective," that to listen to his mother you'd have thought the streets of Raleigh were crawling with what?

4. What is the name of the patient who was a paranoid Tuscan?

5. What does the narrator say is his best asset in the first essay?

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