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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say the women’s knowledge comes from in the feminist encounter group?
(a) Men.
(b) TV.
(c) Experiences in Richmond.
(d) Ms. magazine.

2. In Chapter Nine, what part of the evening does Temple want to keep secret?
(a) Him losing track of Karen.
(b) Him soiling his pants.
(c) Having seen so many drugs.
(d) Karen doing drugs.

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

4. What conclusion does Meg come to when the truck driver who recognizes her dies in a wreck?
(a) That she is not in control.
(b) That she will always survive.
(c) That knowledge has consequences.
(d) That God is looking out for her.

5. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?
(a) From a heart attack.
(b) In a freak fishing accident.
(c) In a traffic accident.
(d) From a mechanical failure in his truck.

6. What is Meg’s “feminist encounter group” talking about when she shows up (111)?
(a) Women to keep husbands away from.
(b) Sex with black men.
(c) A course in sex magic.
(d) Faking orgasms.

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

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

9. 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.

10. What does Mike tell the cops the day after the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) That Karen and Temple were dealing acid.
(b) That Byrdie was the one who brought drugs into the house.
(c) That he never saw anyone with drugs.
(d) That he gave Karen the drugs.

11. Why does the district attorney feel he owes Byrdie a debt of gratitude?
(a) For being a high-profile white defendant.
(b) For helping his career.
(c) For making the case so easy.
(d) For letting him show his talents.

12. Who does Meg confess her true story to in Chapter Ten?
(a) Byrdie.
(b) Lee.
(c) Karen.
(d) Lomax.

13. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?
(a) During driving lessons.
(b) In a shooting range.
(c) In a restaurant lot at night.
(d) In bed with Temple.

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

15. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?
(a) More construction.
(b) Increasing the value of investment properties.
(c) Pushing out black families.
(d) Re-segregating the schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Meg and Lomax discover they have been selling all this time, when they thought it was cocaine?

2. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?

3. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?

4. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?

5. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?

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