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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 the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?
(a) The hostile neighbors.
(b) The undergrowth.
(c) The flooding.
(d) The bug situation.

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

3. What was the response to the missing person ad Lee ran?
(a) Leads from all over the state.
(b) A few calls from Lynchburg.
(c) A smattering of crank calls.
(d) No response.

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

5. What is Karen’s real name?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Mireille.
(d) Anaïs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?

3. What does Karen want for Christmas?

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

5. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?

(see the answer key)

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