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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. When did Karen Brown die?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1973.

2. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?
(a) The phoenix.
(b) The Amazon.
(c) The Maoist.
(d) The geeky girl.

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

4. How does Lee suppress the insurrection among the Stillwater Review editorial board?
(a) He capitulates.
(b) He opens the all-women issue to men.
(c) He fires them all.
(d) He negotiates for pay raises.

5. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.
(b) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

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

3. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?

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

5. How does Karen characterize Temple’s role in her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator mean when she says that “Lee’s sex life was a lot like Byrdie’s” (102)?

2. What is Peggy’s role as faculty wife like?

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

4. How does Zink describe Mireille’s relationship with her father?

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

6. What is the house like where Meg and Karen take refuge?

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

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

9. What is the house like, where Lee lives?

10. How well does Karen fare in such a limited, impoverished environment?

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