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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the newcomers want the PTA to do?
(a) Lower property taxes.
(b) Integrate schools.
(c) Segregate schools.
(d) Build a new school.

2. What is Meg’s breakthrough play about?
(a) A gay poet.
(b) A lesbian Antigone.
(c) Lesbians in Iran.
(d) A lesbian vampire.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg tell she feels like she is raising, in Karen?
(a) A bird of paradise.
(b) An iguana.
(c) A horse.
(d) A kitten.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Meg hide her drugs in Chapter Six?

2. How does Dee characterize white people’s food?

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

4. Why does Meg say Temple makes her feel like a mother?

5. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?

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