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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?
(a) The maintenance man.
(b) His student.
(c) Her close friend.
(d) His guest poet.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

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

4. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?

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

(see the answer key)

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