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

2. How many steps does it take the narrator to walk home from school in the second essay?

3. What do the author's mother and older sister share a love for?

4. What does the author refer to his minister as in the first essay?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ya Ya feel about her grandchildren? How do they feel about her?

2. What does Miss Chestnut scold David for in "A Plague of Tics"?

3. What happens when David's father visits him in New York?

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

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

6. What does David's father warn his children about, and how?

7. Why are the narrator's sisters kidnapped in "Chipped Beef"? How do his parents react?

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

9. Why do David's teachers come to his home? What is their impression of his mother?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of "Imagination versus Reality" in the essays of Naked. How does this theme carry across into different stories?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of language as a comedic technique in "Drama Bug." How does his family react to his behavior in this essay? What is the outcome?

Essay Topic 3

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

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