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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?
(a) They ignore them.
(b) They lecture them.
(c) They spoil them.
(d) They browbeat them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say people came to visit Stillwater College from all over?

2. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

3. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?

4. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

5. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?

(see the answer key)

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