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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lee’s reaction when Byrdie shows him his poetry?
(a) He celebrates him.
(b) He promotes him.
(c) He criticizes him.
(d) He disavows him.

2. What one thing does Lee say made the “South go away overnight” (133).
(a) The highway system.
(b) The Internet.
(c) Indoor plumbing.
(d) Air conditioning.

3. What is the social change that ultimately causes Meg and Karen to move out of their shack?
(a) Demobilization.
(b) White flight.
(c) Gentrification.
(d) Mass mobilization.

4. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?
(a) The Jungle Book.
(b) The Seven Seas.
(c) Captains Courageous.
(d) If.

5. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?
(a) He makes him laugh derisively.
(b) He underwhelms.
(c) He makes him forget his interview questions.
(d) He blows him away.

6. What role does Mike want Karen to play in his ritual?
(a) Hanged woman.
(b) The virgin whore.
(c) Fertility goddess.
(d) Temple prostitute.

7. What reason do Karen and Temple give for not coming out of Karen’s room much over the holidays?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Homework.
(c) Reading.
(d) Independent studies.

8. Where does Meg hide her drugs in Chapter Six?
(a) In a pressure cooker.
(b) In her luggage.
(c) In a ceramic jar.
(d) Under the bed.

9. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?
(a) Gin and tonics.
(b) Meg and Lomax’ drugs.
(c) Ham biscuits.
(d) Driving lessons with Karen.

10. What would Byrdie’s “imaginary planning bureau “R and D” be in charge of (156)?
(a) Research and Design.
(b) Regression and Deceleration.
(c) Redemption and de-industrialization.
(d) Reclamation and desalinization.

11. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?
(a) Something that is thrust on a girl.
(b) Something a girl grows into.
(c) Something the world decides for each girl.
(d) Something a girl decides.

12. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?
(a) They are invited to be founders with Lomax’ dad.
(b) They inherit money from Meg’s family.
(c) They are bequeathed the land by the Seal.
(d) They want to launder their drug money.

13. What do Meg and Lomax discover they have been selling all this time, when they thought it was cocaine?
(a) PCP.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Marijuana.

14. What does Karen remember Byrdie pairing intelligence with?
(a) Dignity.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Protective contempt.

15. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?
(a) Flea.
(b) The District Attorney.
(c) Lomax.
(d) The Seal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?

2. How does Lee handle the topic of Byrdie’s case over the holidays at his parents’ house?

3. What is Temple’s career aspiration when he starts UVA?

4. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

5. What do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?

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