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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lee’s AIDS scare start?
(a) With a letter from an old lover.
(b) With a fever.
(c) With a rash of sores.
(d) With loss of appetite.

2. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?
(a) Gin and tonics.
(b) Driving lessons with Karen.
(c) Meg and Lomax’ drugs.
(d) Ham biscuits.

3. What do Meg and Lomax discover they have been selling all this time, when they thought it was cocaine?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) PCP.

4. What kind of writers does Lee start to cultivate after he feels washed-up in poetry?
(a) Southern writers.
(b) Novelists.
(c) Cookbook authors.
(d) Literary journalists.

5. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?
(a) At a steeplechase.
(b) At school.
(c) In a museum.
(d) In a canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?

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

3. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?

4. How does Lee suppress the insurrection among the Stillwater Review editorial board?

5. What is Meg’s requirement for her career?

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