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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.
(b) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.

2. What causes Peggy to drive Lee’s VW Thing into the lake?
(a) His destruction of her pottery.
(b) A fight in which he insults her.
(c) A fight in which he hits her.
(d) His affair with her friend.

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

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

5. How is it that Temple ends up with his head in Karen’s lap and his feet in Flea’s hands?
(a) He passes out in the heat.
(b) He falls off a deck.
(c) He sprains his ankle.
(d) He trips on a root and injures his knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the newcomers want the PTA to do?

2. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?

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

4. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?

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

(see the answer key)

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