Pop Quiz
by Cheryl Cudmore
 
1.   What is your name?         Cheryl Anne Cudmore, pronounced:
[SHErill ennn merrrry marGRIT muhgwiggin muhklaaarn kuhdmor]
2.   How old are you?         Ich wart neinzehn jahren & singen und tanzen to der Oompahband und trinken die Bier im München Hofbrauhaus when j.m. got his first diaper muddy. Jawohl! (Ich? Itch?) How's my Deutsch?
3.   Where do you live?         Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
4.   What do you do for a living?         To earn money, I care seasonally for the children of refugees who attend English second language classes at the local college. I do graphic design on a part-time freelance basis on contract. I paint, illustrate and do photography some of which sells. I write poetry which might sell one day.

I'm a wife, mother and homemaker.

5.   Do you drive?         I regret to admit I do so get outta the way.
6.   What do you do for joy?         I love to be creative: think, write, paint, compose, conceptualize. I love to consume art: music, visual, performance, dance, literature. I love when I'm high with ideas and they flow out of me. I love my son and my husband and making them happy. I love swimming a kilometer a day with my swimming buddies. I love sweating in the sauna.
7.   What is your pet peeve?   And how much does it weigh?  Does it sleep by the door?  Is it housebroken?          I hate insufferably bitchy people especially anti-profanity crusaders. They drive me bonkers.
8.   Do you write, paint or play?  All at the same time?  (While juggling a dozen eggs and riding a unicycle?)          I do. I do. I try + yo-yo and crafting balloon animals.
9.   Who is the most impressive character you've ever met?          My son is pretty impressive to me.
The very first person who I believed when he told me:
"You will be whatever you design yourself to be."
10.   Have you ever read, acted, performed, thrown up, etc. in public?          I have read in public. I have acted and performed in public with much reluctance. My son threw up on me in public. I wasn't impressed with him that time.
11.  What piece of literature or art moved your soul to ecstatic waves of bliss?          The Beatles, SPLHCB album.
12.  What was the first thing you ever encountered that made you realise that art is important?          the delivery room
13.  Would you consider yourself an artist?  A good one?  Why or why not?          I do. Iam. It is.
14.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anything else?         garnish
15.  What are your favorite things that have ABSOLUTELY everything to do with everything else?          here and now
16.  What's the meaning of life?          oneness of being
17.  Why?          it just is
18.  True or false: the Three Stooges represent the apex of American cultural achievement.         I'm going to say the Apollo moon walks and the Mir space station are unquestionably the apex of American cultural achievement because they are outward and forward-reaching and they represent America as a culture alive with a searching, pioneering spirit.
19.  True or False: Shemp was funnier than the original Curly.         John Belucci was slightly funnier than John Candy.
20.  Who's da man?          Mirza Husayn `Alí