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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the Thetan House known for at University of Virginia?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Ultimate Frisbee.
(c) Music.
(d) Sports.

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

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

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

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

15. What is Byrdie playing on his ukulele when Karen and Temple show up at Thetan House?
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) The Cure.
(c) Bruce Springsteen.
(d) Violent Femmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the Thetan House Halloween party does Meg read Karen’s letter about that night?

2. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?

3. In Chapter Nine, what part of the evening does Temple want to keep secret?

4. What is Temple’s career aspiration when he starts UVA?

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

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