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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator say Byrdie and his friends felt after they spent a night in New York city with a 35-year-old woman?
(a) Wiser.
(b) Cooler.
(c) Older.
(d) Younger.

3. What does Byrdie say his purpose is, after a year of school?
(a) To earn a good woman’s trust.
(b) To distinguish himself with his accomplishments.
(c) To profit himself and his family.
(d) To serve his community’s needs.

4. Why does Peggy not want to go to a judge to get a divorce?
(a) Fear of Lee’s temper.
(b) Fear of publicity.
(c) Fear of losing custody.
(d) Shame for her childrearing.

5. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.
(b) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meg say she is not willing to do in order to get good clothes for Karen?

2. What is Karen’s real name?

3. What does Karen want for Christmas?

4. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?

5. What kind of reading material has Peggy brought with her to the shack?

(see the answer key)

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