2. What is Lomax’ father’s hobby?
(a) Bird watching.
(b) Finding psychedelic mushrooms.
(c) Chipmunk watching.
(d) Building ships in bottles.

3. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?
(a) As dry as he could make it.
(b) Erudite and technical.
(c) Flowery and romantic.
(d) Loquacious and verbose.

4. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?
(a) Sunglasses.
(b) A sweater.
(c) An orange cap.
(d) Bug spray.

5. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Provincetown.
(d) Atlanta.

6. What does Lee say all poems are about?
(a) The act of reading.
(b) The difficulty of carrying experience.
(c) The inevitability of resurrection.
(d) The process of dying.

7. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?
(a) Bullshitting parasites.
(b) Posers and frauds.
(c) Lazy loafers.
(d) Foul-mouthed gods.

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

9. What does Karen want for Christmas?
(a) A hamburger.
(b) A pony.
(c) A doll.
(d) A trip to the ocean.

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

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

12. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?
(a) Dark blue.
(b) Pink.
(c) Crimson.
(d) Yellow.

13. 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 he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.

14. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?
(a) Affectionate and loyal.
(b) Tough and intimidating.
(c) Imperturbable and cool.
(d) Tender and fragile.

15. What does Lee do with Peggy’s things after she leaves?
(a) Donates them to the college.
(b) Saves them in storage.
(c) Sends them to her parents.
(d) Throws them out.