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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the press conference the prosecutor plans not end up happening?
(a) Another student confesses.
(b) Byrdie leaves town.
(c) The judge puts a gag order on the case.
(d) Mike recants his testimony.

2. What is Luke writing a book about?
(a) A black lawyer.
(b) A white lesbian police officer.
(c) A black lesbian playwright.
(d) A white civil rights worker.

3. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?
(a) The Aeneid.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
(d) The Confessions of St. Augustine.

4. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?
(a) A bathroom.
(b) Drinks.
(c) A friend.
(d) The exit.

5. What is the effect of Meg’s discourse, in her feminist encounter group, on the relativity of gender?
(a) The women are aghast.
(b) The women are aroused.
(c) The women are hostile.
(d) The women are fascinated.

6. Where does Temple go to take refuge when Flea and Karen arouse him?
(a) His room.
(b) His happy place.
(c) He has a drink.
(d) The sheltering sky.

7. Where does Luke teach?
(a) UNC.
(b) UVA.
(c) Columbia.
(d) CUNY.

8. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?
(a) She wants to cook Luke a homemade meal.
(b) She wants to jump out of the car.
(c) She wants to bring Luke home and live with her.
(d) She wants to lecture her about manners.

9. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s college vision of life?
(a) A dream of total orchestration.
(b) A fantasy of feudal power.
(c) A pipe dream of harmony.
(d) A nightmare of control.

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

11. How does it come to pass that Mike spends the day after the Thetan House Halloween party at the police station?
(a) He is filing a missing persons report for Karen.
(b) He was caught in a sting operation.
(c) He was arrested for DUI.
(d) He is there to press charges against Byrdie.

12. How does Lee handle the topic of Byrdie’s case over the holidays at his parents’ house?
(a) He makes sure no one can forget about it.
(b) He raves about it non-stop.
(c) He throws it into conversation now and then.
(d) He boycotts it.

13. What is the punch spiked with at the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) Gin.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Grain alcohol.

14. What does Byrdie join when he gets to University of Virginia?
(a) A secret society.
(b) A squash team.
(c) A fraternity.
(d) A debating society.

15. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?
(a) Raiding a sorority.
(b) Getting laid.
(c) Stealing an icon from the college center.
(d) Smoking pot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Byrdie playing on his ukulele when Karen and Temple show up at Thetan House?

2. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?

3. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

4. What reason do Karen and Temple give for not coming out of Karen’s room much over the holidays?

5. What movie does Karen make the interviewer from UVA think of?

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