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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Meg say Karen knows about her “business dealings” (203)?
(a) Nothing whatsoever.
(b) She knows the general picture, but not specifics.
(c) She knows what they’re selling, but not the volumes.
(d) She has suspicions, but has never confirmed them.

2. 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 self-reliance.
(d) She advocates socialism.

3. What does Temple say he saw on Lee’s face when Lee realized that Karen was his daughter?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Fear.
(c) Lust.
(d) Unconditional love.

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

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

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

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

8. 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 threatens him.
(d) She kills him.

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

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

11. What are the members of Thetan House smoking when Temple and Karen arrive?
(a) Crack.
(b) Clove cigarettes.
(c) Hash.
(d) Opium.

12. Which poet previously owned the jacket Temple has borrowed from Byrdie?
(a) Billy Collins.
(b) Phil Levine.
(c) Charles Simic.
(d) Mark Strand.

13. How does it come to pass that Mike spends the day after the Thetan House Halloween party at the police station?
(a) He is filing a missing persons report for Karen.
(b) He was arrested for DUI.
(c) He was caught in a sting operation.
(d) He is there to press charges against Byrdie.

14. What reason do Karen and Temple give for not coming out of Karen’s room much over the holidays?
(a) Reading.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Homework.
(d) Independent studies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it that got the Cockpit bar shut down?

2. How does Lee handle the topic of Byrdie’s case over the holidays at his parents’ house?

3. What does the narrator say the newcomers want the PTA to do?

4. Why does the district attorney feel he owes Byrdie a debt of gratitude?

5. When do Meg and Karen move into the housing development?

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