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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee say all poems are about?
(a) The act of reading.
(b) The process of dying.
(c) The difficulty of carrying experience.
(d) The inevitability of resurrection.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Which famous writer’s footsteps does Peggy see herself following in?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Kate Chopin.
(c) Charlotte Brontë.
(d) Edith Wharton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?

2. What kind of reading material has Peggy brought with her to the shack?

3. Where is Mislaid set?

4. When did Karen Brown die?

5. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?

(see the answer key)

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