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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. 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 falls off a deck.
(c) He trips on a root and injures his knee.
(d) He sprains his ankle.

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

6. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg say she is probably wanted for?
(a) Outstanding speeding tickets.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Selling cocaine.
(d) Possession of drugs.

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

8. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?
(a) They are bequeathed the land by the Seal.
(b) They want to launder their drug money.
(c) They inherit money from Meg’s family.
(d) They are invited to be founders with Lomax’ dad.

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

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

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

12. Where does Meg go after she reads Karen’s letter about the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) To see Byrdie.
(b) The squirrel refuge.
(c) To see Karen at school.
(d) To her parents’ house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Meg describe Karen’s father to the feminist encounter group?

3. What does the DA find the Byrdie case is an exercise in?

4. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?

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

(see the answer keys)

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