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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?
(a) Exhausting days of colic.
(b) Leisurely feeding and naps.
(c) Exciting days in the garden.
(d) Grinding housework.

2. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?
(a) Restoration.
(b) Modern.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Gothic.

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

4. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?
(a) Surgeons.
(b) Street people.
(c) Morticians.
(d) Bookkeepers.

5. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two or three months.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) A month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

2. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?

3. What is Peggy’s father’s line of work?

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

5. What is Karen’s real name?

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