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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Meg refuse to work as a waitress?

2. What two character traits does Byrdie manage to combine in high school?

3. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?

4. How much does Meg get for selling a dead raccoon to a bait shop?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis of Lee and Peggy’s attraction?

2. What kind of efforts does Lee make to find Peggy and Mireille?

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

4. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

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

6. What does the narrator mean when she says that “Lee’s sex life was a lot like Byrdie’s” (102)?

7. How does the narrator characterize Karen’s memories of her brother and her life at Lee’s house?

8. What is Lomax’ background?

9. What was it that caused Lee’s “irreplaceable VW Thing” to end up in the lake (29)?

10. What is Peggy’s first meeting with Lee like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Mislaid. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the audience for Mislaid? What is the ideal reader for Mislaid likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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