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

2. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?
(a) Control over hiring and firing in the English department.
(b) Immunity from sexual harassment complaints.
(c) A travel allowance.
(d) Money for a literary magazine.

3. What two character traits does Byrdie manage to combine in high school?
(a) Weird and popular.
(b) Thespian and engineer.
(c) Outing club and chess club member.
(d) Nerdy and athletic.

4. What does Lee turn to when he feels washed up in poetry?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Biography.

5. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Modern.
(d) Restoration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?

2. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?

3. How does the narrator characterize Lomax?

4. How does the narrator say Lee’s house is regarded among Byrdie’s friends?

5. What famous author does Lee turn to, in Peggy’s absence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

3. How does Lee’s poetry change as his con grows up?

4. Why does Lee’s private investigator ultimately give up his search for Peggy?

5. What is the basis of Lee and Peggy’s attraction?

6. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

7. How does Lee suppress the mutiny on the board of the Stillwater Review?

8. How does the narrator describe the construction of Stillwater Lake?

9. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

10. What kind of efforts does Lee make to find Peggy and Mireille?

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