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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Byrdie say his purpose is, after a year of school?
(a) To profit himself and his family.
(b) To serve his community’s needs.
(c) To distinguish himself with his accomplishments.
(d) To earn a good woman’s trust.

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

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

6. What one thing does Lee say made the “South go away overnight” (133).
(a) Indoor plumbing.
(b) The Internet.
(c) The highway system.
(d) Air conditioning.

7. What does Byrdie join when he gets to University of Virginia?
(a) A squash team.
(b) A fraternity.
(c) A secret society.
(d) A debating society.

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

9. How is it that Temple ends up with his head in Karen’s lap and his feet in Flea’s hands?
(a) He passes out in the heat.
(b) He sprains his ankle.
(c) He falls off a deck.
(d) He trips on a root and injures his knee.

10. What is Temple’s career aspiration when he starts UVA?
(a) Surgeon.
(b) Civil rights worker.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Teacher.

11. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?
(a) Drinks.
(b) A bathroom.
(c) The exit.
(d) A friend.

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

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

14. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?
(a) Therapy or eviction.
(b) Separation or abuse.
(c) Institutionalization or divorce.
(d) Submission or warfare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason do Karen and Temple give for not coming out of Karen’s room much over the holidays?

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

3. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?

4. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

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

(see the answer keys)

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