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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. Where is the author's paternal grandmother from?

2. What is the name of the family in the book the author finds in "Next of Kin"?

3. How does Ya Ya start a fire while at the community living apartment?

4. At what golf hole does Lisa begin her period in "The Women's Open"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the author's mother leave behind a video for Lisa? What is on it?

4. What is the second household mystery in "True Detective"? What is the backlash the author finds himself in?

5. What does "Dix Hill" refer to? Why is this fascinating to the author?

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

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

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

9. What does David's mother insist he stop doing to the cat? Why?

10. When does Ya Ya die? How does the family react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss "Dinah the Christmas Whore." What events take place in this essay? What lesson does the author learn?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's fascination with hitchhiking in the essays. What is it about this activity that attracts him? What is his final conclusion regarding hitchhiking? Why?

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