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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lee’s mother’s objection to breastfeeding?
(a) She sees it as indulgent.
(b) It makes the baby dependent on the mother.
(c) She thinks it creates narcissists.
(d) She does not think it’s nutritious.

2. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?
(a) The secretary.
(b) Their maintenance man.
(c) The movie star.
(d) The nanny.

3. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Provincetown.
(d) Atlanta.

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

5. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?
(a) Pine needles in the breeze.
(b) Trucks on the highway.
(c) Crickets.
(d) Bullfrogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Peggy to drive Lee’s VW Thing into the lake?

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

3. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?

4. What does Lee say all poems are about?

5. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?

(see the answer key)

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