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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?
(a) Tough and intimidating.
(b) Tender and fragile.
(c) Affectionate and loyal.
(d) Imperturbable and cool.

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

4. What is Byrdie’s name?
(a) Favreau.
(b) Harry.
(c) Mortimer.
(d) Rhys.

5. What is Peggy’s father’s line of work?
(a) Truck driver.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?

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

3. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

4. When did Karen Brown die?

5. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?

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