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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Peggy leave Lee?
(a) Spite.
(b) Rage at his cruelty to her.
(c) Fear of being committed to a mental institution.
(d) Fear of poverty.

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

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

5. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mislaid set?

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

3. What is Karen’s real name?

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

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

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