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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 the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?
(a) The hostile neighbors.
(b) The bug situation.
(c) The undergrowth.
(d) The flooding.

2. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?
(a) They browbeat them.
(b) They lecture them.
(c) They spoil them.
(d) They ignore them.

3. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?
(a) In a canoe.
(b) At a steeplechase.
(c) In a museum.
(d) At school.

4. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?
(a) In private.
(b) In her rugby shirt.
(c) In her sweatshirt.
(d) In her debutante gown.

5. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?
(a) Lazy loafers.
(b) Bullshitting parasites.
(c) Posers and frauds.
(d) Foul-mouthed gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the police’s response to Peggy’s disappearance?

2. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?

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

4. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

5. What is Byrdie’s name?

(see the answer key)

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