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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Meg and Karen move into the housing development?
(a) When Karen starts fourth grade.
(b) When Karen starts eleventh grade.
(c) When Karen starts eighth grade.
(d) When Karen starts sixth grade.

2. What does Lee say Karen/ Mireille has convinced him to do?
(a) Learn and grow.
(b) Not postpone joy.
(c) Plant seeds for the long term.
(d) Forgive and forget.

3. How does the narrator characterize Lomax?
(a) A raconteur.
(b) A flaneur.
(c) A connoisseur.
(d) An aesthete.

4. What common feeling does Karen say her mother and father and brother all feel?
(a) Tormented.
(b) Happy.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Guilty.

5. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?
(a) A town survey.
(b) Helping the Browns request benefits.
(c) A research project.
(d) Helping the Browns with back taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?

2. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

3. Why does Meg refuse to work as a waitress?

4. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?

5. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?

(see the answer key)

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