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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Byrdie use to chase the boys out of the room and save Karen from being assaulted?
(a) A cane.
(b) A sword.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A lacrosse stick.

5. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?
(a) Someone whose parents can get them out of any trouble whatsoever.
(b) Someone who can be drunk and not show it.
(c) Someone who passed out drunk regularly, and still makes good grades.
(d) Someone who drinks in moderation, gets sufficient grades, and has fascinating activities.

6. How long after the Thetan House Halloween party does Meg read Karen’s letter about that night?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Five days.
(d) Three days.

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

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

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

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

11. What movie does Karen make the interviewer from UVA think of?
(a) Taxi Driver.
(b) Sweet Charity.
(c) Legally Blonde.
(d) Cabaret.

12. What is Meg’s take on the controversy about school funding?
(a) She calls for a new and bigger school.
(b) She advocates subservience to benefactors.
(c) She advocates socialism.
(d) She advocates self-reliance.

13. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?
(a) Himself.
(b) Karen.
(c) Temple.
(d) Byrdie.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mythical symbol does Karen say she and Temple make when they make love?

2. What is the Thetan House known for at University of Virginia?

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

4. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

5. Where does the narrator say Karen’s “common-sensical, matter-of-fact way of approaching things” comes from (160)?

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