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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?
(a) Tell a teacher.
(b) Turn her back.
(c) Leave.
(d) Hit them in the nose.

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

4. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?
(a) Modern.
(b) Restoration.
(c) Gothic.
(d) Victorian.

5. What does Karen’s Christmas wish make Peggy want?
(a) A family.
(b) Prestige.
(c) A good lawyer.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?

2. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?

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

4. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?

5. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?

(see the answer key)

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