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Stitches: A Memoir
By JACOB BUSA
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Question 1
1.
Mama's language was quiet sobbing and slamming cupboard doors.
Dad's language was thumping a punching bag in the basement.
And Ted's language was beating on his drum.
What was the narrator's language?
Getting in trouble at school
Fighting anyone who looked at him funny
Getting sick
Stealing for no reason
Question 2
2.
What was the narrator's dad's job?
He was a scientist
He was a lawyer
He was a radiologist
He was a doctor
Question 3
3.
How did the narrator's great-grandfather try to kill himself?
By holding his breath
By drinking Drano
By starving himself
By signing up for war
Question 4
4.
What was the long-term result of great-grandfather's failed suicide attempt?
He went blind from over exposure
He could never speak again because he burned his vocal cords
He could never walk again from lack of oxygen to the brain
He lost his sense of smell
Question 5
5.
When he was 11 years old, which one of his parents' friends did the narrator have a crush on?
Brigitte Bardot
Mrs. Robinson
Mrs. Dillon
Alice
Question 6
6.
When the narrator was 11, what did the last guest notice about the narrator as they were leaving the bridge party?
He had a growth on his neck
He had gotten taller since she last saw him
He had stolen her bracelet
He was wearing clothes that matched hers
Question 7
7.
What did the narrator lose after complications with his surgery?
His ability to move
His ability to walk
His ability to speak
His ability to see
Question 8
8.
After he came home from his surgery, what "crazy dream" did the narrator have?
It was about a lost bat looking for it's mama in a thunderstorm
It was him trying to give a speech but having all of his teeth fall out
It was about him being an egg that was being thrown at a house
He was being eaten by a sandwich
Question 9
9.
When he was 15, what did David's Rabbit therapist tell him that was difficult to hear?
That his mother did not love him
That his father passed away
That he's not really a therapist
That he was adopted
Question 10
10.
Towards the end of the memoir, what did David's grandma do to his grandpa?
She bought him a new car
She locked him in the basement and burned down the house
She divorced him for cheating on her 60 years ago
She decided to renew her wedding vows to him