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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the high point of Temple’s birthday parties?
(a) The piñata.
(b) The clown.
(c) The swimming.
(d) The cake.

2. What kind of writers does Lee start to cultivate after he feels washed-up in poetry?
(a) Novelists.
(b) Southern writers.
(c) Literary journalists.
(d) Cookbook authors.

3. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?
(a) Her best friend Debbie.
(b) Her PE teacher Ms. Miller.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her baby sitter Susan.

4. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?
(a) Bullshitting parasites.
(b) Lazy loafers.
(c) Posers and frauds.
(d) Foul-mouthed gods.

5. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?
(a) Morticians.
(b) Street people.
(c) Surgeons.
(d) Bookkeepers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous writer’s footsteps does Peggy see herself following in?

2. When does Lee date the rise of fashion to at Stillwater College?

3. What was the response to the missing person ad Lee ran?

4. What is Lomax’ father’s hobby?

5. How does the narrator say Byrdie and his friends felt after they spent a night in New York city with a 35-year-old woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Peggy flee from Lee’s house?

2. How does the narrator characterize Karen’s memories of her brother and her life at Lee’s house?

3. What is Byrdie’s effect on his classmates in high school?

4. What is Peggy’s first meeting with Lee like?

5. How does the narrator know Meg is burdened by the lies she tells Karen?

6. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

7. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

8. How does Meg pass herself and Karen off as black?

9. Where does the narrator see Mireille’s “spiritual kinship” with Lee (86)?

10. What does Karen do to raise funds to live on?

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