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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 process of dying.
(c) The inevitability of resurrection.
(d) The act of reading.

2. What is Karen’s real name?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Anaïs.
(d) Mireille.

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

4. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her PE teacher Ms. Miller.
(c) Her best friend Debbie.
(d) Her baby sitter Susan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

2. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?

3. Why does Peggy leave Lee?

4. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?

5. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?

(see the answer key)

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