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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?
(a) Three years.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) Two or three months.
(d) A month.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the police’s response to Peggy’s disappearance?
(a) Slow and sloppy investigation.
(b) Casual, professional curiosity.
(c) Feverish interest.
(d) Indifference.

4. Where does Byrdie go with his friends on a chartered jet?
(a) Key West for scuba diving.
(b) Savannah for fishing.
(c) DC for a rally.
(d) New York for the museums.

5. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?
(a) Alligators.
(b) Toxic chemicals.
(c) Leeches.
(d) Bacteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?

2. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?

3. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?

4. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

5. Why does Peggy not want to go to a judge to get a divorce?

(see the answer key)

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