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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?
(a) Her whiteness.
(b) Her Ivy League education.
(c) Her pride in her family heritage.
(d) Her wealth.

2. What do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?
(a) Charlie Chaplin’s dictator.
(b) Blazing Saddles.
(c) Taxi Driver.
(d) Cryptofascism.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?
(a) Meg and Lomax’ drugs.
(b) Ham biscuits.
(c) Driving lessons with Karen.
(d) Gin and tonics.

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

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

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

9. Where does the narrator say that pre-trial hearings unofficially take place?
(a) On a sailboat in the ocean.
(b) The country club.
(c) The sauna at the gym.
(d) The golf course.

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

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

12. How does Meg describe Karen’s father to the feminist encounter group?
(a) An audiologist.
(b) A docent.
(c) An entomologist.
(d) A linguist.

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

14. 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.

15. When do Meg and Karen move into the housing development?
(a) When Karen starts eighth grade.
(b) When Karen starts sixth grade.
(c) When Karen starts eleventh grade.
(d) When Karen starts fourth grade.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What conclusion does Meg come to when the truck driver who recognizes her dies in a wreck?

3. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?

4. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?

5. Which poet previously owned the jacket Temple has borrowed from Byrdie?

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