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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How troubled does the narrator say Byrdie is about his indictment for felony charges of distribution of hard drugs?
(a) Nervously amused.
(b) Only a little worried.
(c) Not at all troubled.
(d) Profoundly anxious.

2. What is the Thetan House known for at University of Virginia?
(a) Ultimate Frisbee.
(b) Music.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Sports.

3. What role does Mike want Karen to play in his ritual?
(a) The virgin whore.
(b) Temple prostitute.
(c) Fertility goddess.
(d) Hanged woman.

4. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?
(a) Re-segregating the schools.
(b) Pushing out black families.
(c) Increasing the value of investment properties.
(d) More construction.

5. What is Temple’s career aspiration when he starts UVA?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Civil rights worker.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Surgeon.

6. Where does Meg go after she reads Karen’s letter about the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) To see Karen at school.
(b) To see Byrdie.
(c) The squirrel refuge.
(d) To her parents’ house.

7. What is Meg’s “feminist encounter group” talking about when she shows up (111)?
(a) Women to keep husbands away from.
(b) A course in sex magic.
(c) Sex with black men.
(d) Faking orgasms.

8. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?
(a) Institutionalization or divorce.
(b) Separation or abuse.
(c) Submission or warfare.
(d) Therapy or eviction.

9. What movie does Karen make the interviewer from UVA think of?
(a) Sweet Charity.
(b) Taxi Driver.
(c) Legally Blonde.
(d) Cabaret.

10. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?
(a) They inherit money from Meg’s family.
(b) They are bequeathed the land by the Seal.
(c) They are invited to be founders with Lomax’ dad.
(d) They want to launder their drug money.

11. How does Meg describe Karen’s father to the feminist encounter group?
(a) An entomologist.
(b) A linguist.
(c) A docent.
(d) An audiologist.

12. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?
(a) The exit.
(b) A bathroom.
(c) Drinks.
(d) A friend.

13. What is the social change that ultimately causes Meg and Karen to move out of their shack?
(a) Gentrification.
(b) Mass mobilization.
(c) White flight.
(d) Demobilization.

14. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?
(a) Someone who passed out drunk regularly, and still makes good grades.
(b) Someone whose parents can get them out of any trouble whatsoever.
(c) Someone who can be drunk and not show it.
(d) Someone who drinks in moderation, gets sufficient grades, and has fascinating activities.

15. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?
(a) He sneaks them out to his car and dumps them in the lake.
(b) He rolls them into meatballs and throws them into the neighborhood.
(c) He flushes them down the toilet.
(d) He sticks them in the pockets of the coats of departing guests.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?

2. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?

3. What does Meg suggest giving up drug dealing for?

4. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

5. What is Byrdie playing on his ukulele when Karen and Temple show up at Thetan House?

(see the answer keys)

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