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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee say all poems are about?
(a) The inevitability of resurrection.
(b) The act of reading.
(c) The difficulty of carrying experience.
(d) The process of dying.

2. What causes Peggy to drive Lee’s VW Thing into the lake?
(a) A fight in which he hits her.
(b) A fight in which he insults her.
(c) His affair with her friend.
(d) His destruction of her pottery.

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

4. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?
(a) Alligators.
(b) Toxic chemicals.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Leeches.

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?
(a) Mark Strand.
(b) Anne Sexton.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Gregory Corso.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?

2. Why does Peggy leave Lee?

3. How much does Meg have in her emergency fund at the beginning of Chapter Four?

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 was the main building of Stillwater College before it was a college?

(see the answer key)

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