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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Meg looks in the mirror in Chapter Eight, what part of her fills her with lust?
(a) Her abdomen.
(b) Her shoulders.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her arms.

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

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

4. How does Dee characterize white people’s food?
(a) Things that are not what they seem.
(b) Things made to look like other things.
(c) Things you cannot identify.
(d) Things made from industrial ingredients.

5. How does Meg prevent the truck driver who recognizes her from Stillwater College to keep quiet?
(a) She bribes him with drugs.
(b) She bribes him with money.
(c) She kills him.
(d) She threatens him.

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

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

8. What was it that got the Cockpit bar shut down?
(a) A series of drug busts.
(b) A vice squad.
(c) Attention from a journalist.
(d) A sting operation.

9. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?
(a) He flushes them down the toilet.
(b) He sneaks them out to his car and dumps them in the lake.
(c) He sticks them in the pockets of the coats of departing guests.
(d) He rolls them into meatballs and throws them into the neighborhood.

10. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Genius.
(c) Boorish.
(d) Childish.

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

12. How troubled does the narrator say Byrdie is about his indictment for felony charges of distribution of hard drugs?
(a) Profoundly anxious.
(b) Only a little worried.
(c) Nervously amused.
(d) Not at all troubled.

13. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?
(a) An impressionable kid.
(b) An unflappable realist.
(c) A dreamy romantic.
(d) A hard-nosed traditionalist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that causes Dee to raise her expectation for Temple’s college plans from community college to University of Virginia?

2. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?

3. What does Meg realize when she strips down in front of the mirror in Chapter Eight?

4. How does Luke characterize Meg’s authorial personality?

5. What does Meg say Karen knows about her “business dealings” (203)?

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