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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the high point of Temple’s birthday parties?
(a) The cake.
(b) The piñata.
(c) The clown.
(d) The swimming.

3. Which poet previously owned the jacket Temple has borrowed from Byrdie?
(a) Phil Levine.
(b) Mark Strand.
(c) Billy Collins.
(d) Charles Simic.

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

5. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?
(a) In a freak fishing accident.
(b) In a traffic accident.
(c) From a mechanical failure in his truck.
(d) From a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?

2. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?

3. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?

4. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

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

(see the answer key)

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