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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lee’s AIDS scare start?
(a) With a fever.
(b) With a letter from an old lover.
(c) With loss of appetite.
(d) With a rash of sores.

2. What is Byrdie’s name?
(a) Favreau.
(b) Mortimer.
(c) Harry.
(d) Rhys.

3. How does the narrator characterize Lomax?
(a) A raconteur.
(b) An aesthete.
(c) A connoisseur.
(d) A flaneur.

4. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?
(a) Her close friend.
(b) His guest poet.
(c) His student.
(d) The maintenance man.

5. What was the response to the missing person ad Lee ran?
(a) Leads from all over the state.
(b) A smattering of crank calls.
(c) No response.
(d) A few calls from Lynchburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the high point of Temple’s birthday parties?

2. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

3. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?

4. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?

5. Which poets was Lee drawn to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zink describe Mireille’s relationship with her father?

2. What does the narrator say is Byrd Flemings social status in high school?

3. Where does the narrator see Mireille’s “spiritual kinship” with Lee (86)?

4. How does Lee embarrass himself when he thinks he sees Mickey?

5. What is Lomax’ background?

6. How does Lee suppress the mutiny on the board of the Stillwater Review?

7. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

8. Why does Lee’s private investigator ultimately give up his search for Peggy?

9. What is Byrdie’s effect on his classmates in high school?

10. What is the house like, where Lee lives?

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