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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. Where does Temple go to take refuge when Flea and Karen arouse him?
(a) His room.
(b) The sheltering sky.
(c) His happy place.
(d) He has a drink.

2. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?
(a) Himself.
(b) Karen.
(c) Byrdie.
(d) Temple.

3. What conclusion does Meg come to when the truck driver who recognizes her dies in a wreck?
(a) That she is not in control.
(b) That she will always survive.
(c) That God is looking out for her.
(d) That knowledge has consequences.

4. What mythical symbol does Karen say she and Temple make when they make love?
(a) A swastika.
(b) A Mobius strip.
(c) A yin-yang.
(d) An oroboros.

5. What does Mike tell the cops the day after the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) That Karen and Temple were dealing acid.
(b) That he never saw anyone with drugs.
(c) That Byrdie was the one who brought drugs into the house.
(d) That he gave Karen the drugs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg say she is probably wanted for?

3. What is the punch spiked with at the Thetan House Halloween party?

4. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s college vision of life?

5. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dee say about race and cooking, when she visits Temple and Dee at UVA?

2. Why is Meg more afraid than comforted when she meets Diane, whom she identifies as another lesbian?

3. What is the outcome of the court scene?

4. How do Lomax and Meg skate by when a local cocaine bust does not touch them?

5. What are the costumes Karen and Temple wear to the Halloween party at Thetan House?

6. How do Lomax and Flea react when Meg tells them that she is really Lee Fleming’s wife?

7. What is the “holy shit moment” that happens in the courtroom (215)?

8. What are Meg’s three fears about getting caught dealing drugs?

9. How did Karen get the nickname “Shadow” (139)?

10. How does the narrator characterize the secret society Byrdie joins at the University of Virginia?

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