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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?
(a) Port Royal.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Portsmouth.
(d) Mobile.

2. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?
(a) Institutionalization or divorce.
(b) Therapy or eviction.
(c) Separation or abuse.
(d) Submission or warfare.

3. What is Luke writing a book about?
(a) A white civil rights worker.
(b) A black lawyer.
(c) A white lesbian police officer.
(d) A black lesbian playwright.

4. What is it that causes Dee to raise her expectation for Temple’s college plans from community college to University of Virginia?
(a) His athletic records.
(b) His PSATs.
(c) His college essay.
(d) His Affirmative Action status.

5. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?
(a) Street people.
(b) Surgeons.
(c) Morticians.
(d) Bookkeepers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?

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

3. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

4. What makes Lee think that the girl he sees in the parking lot is his daughter?

5. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?

(see the answer key)

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