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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. What does the author's mother insist on doing with Ya Ya?
(a) Sending for a nurse.
(b) Sending her to her sister.
(c) Putting her to sleep.
(d) Putting her in a nursing home.

2. Who becomes Ya Ya's roommate at the private facility?
(a) Mrs. Denardo.
(b) Mrs. Wilkinson.
(c) Mrs. Eldridge.
(d) Mrs. Thomson.

3. What does the author refer to his minister as in the first essay?
(a) An orthodox.
(b) A reformer.
(c) A tippler.
(d) A clown.

4. What color carpet does the author's father install in their living room?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

5. Where does Ya Ya live in the beginning of the third essay?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Queens.
(d) Cortland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the development that Ya Ya is moved to?

2. Who comes to the house to speak to the author's mother in the second essay?

3. Who does "Ya Ya" refer to?

4. Where does the author's family move when he's a child?

5. What color towels does the author's mother replace the old ones with in "True Detective"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who in David's family is taken to an institution? What effect does this have?

2. Who injures the author in "Cyclops"? What is the result?

3. How does "Next of Kin" become passed through the family? What finally happens to it?

4. What happens after the golf tournament in "Women's Open"?

5. What is David's father's obsession? Where does he take them in "Women's Open"?

6. What does David do in order to clear his name in "True Detective"?

7. What changes David's father's mind about Ya Ya's being taken to a care facility? Where does he take her?

8. What does Lisa complain about in "Women's Open"? How does her father react?

9. What does David fantasize about his "real parents" in "Chipped Beef"?

10. Where is Ya Ya from, and how do she and David's mother feel about each other?

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