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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the social change that ultimately causes Meg and Karen to move out of their shack?
(a) Mass mobilization.
(b) Gentrification.
(c) White flight.
(d) Demobilization.

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

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

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

5. How troubled does the narrator say Byrdie is about his indictment for felony charges of distribution of hard drugs?
(a) Profoundly anxious.
(b) Only a little worried.
(c) Not at all troubled.
(d) Nervously amused.

6. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?
(a) The Confessions of St. Augustine.
(b) Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
(c) The Aeneid.
(d) King Lear.

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

8. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?
(a) She wants to jump out of the car.
(b) She wants to lecture her about manners.
(c) She wants to bring Luke home and live with her.
(d) She wants to cook Luke a homemade meal.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?
(a) Genius.
(b) Graceful.
(c) Boorish.
(d) Childish.

14. Where does the narrator say Karen’s “common-sensical, matter-of-fact way of approaching things” comes from (160)?
(a) Patience.
(b) Genius.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Passivity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say the women’s knowledge comes from in the feminist encounter group?

2. What does Mike tell the cops the day after the Thetan House Halloween party?

3. What do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?

4. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

5. What is Meg’s breakthrough play about?

(see the answer keys)

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