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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?
(a) Negotiating between her and Lee.
(b) Telling her to leave.
(c) Begging her to stay.
(d) Badgering her for candy.

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

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

4. How does Lee console himself after he finds that Byrdie’s perfections make him feel bad about himself?
(a) By swimming in the lake.
(b) By getting ice cream.
(c) By shopping.
(d) By riding a horse into the woods.

5. What is Meg’s requirement for her career?
(a) Not needing to use math.
(b) Not having to have a college degree.
(c) Not having to leave the house.
(d) Not having to talk to anyone.

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

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

8. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?
(a) The flooding.
(b) The bug situation.
(c) The undergrowth.
(d) The hostile neighbors.

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

10. Which poets was Lee drawn to?
(a) The Romantics.
(b) The Beats.
(c) The Metaphysical poets.
(d) The confessional poets.

11. What does Lee spill on his pants when he thinks he sees Mireille in a parking lot?
(a) Books.
(b) French fries.
(c) Corn chowder.
(d) Paint.

12. How much does Meg get for selling a dead raccoon to a bait shop?
(a) $35.
(b) $6.
(c) $22.
(d) $10.

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

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

15. How much does Meg have in her emergency fund at the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) $10.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $100.
(d) $10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Peggy to drive Lee’s VW Thing into the lake?

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

3. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?

4. How much does Meg get when she sells worms?

5. Where does Byrdie go with his friends on a chartered jet?

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