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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. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?
(a) The maintenance man.
(b) His student.
(c) Her close friend.
(d) His guest poet.

2. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?
(a) Tough and intimidating.
(b) Tender and fragile.
(c) Affectionate and loyal.
(d) Imperturbable and cool.

3. What famous author does Lee turn to, in Peggy’s absence?
(a) Montaigne.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Milton.

4. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Provincetown.

5. Why does Peggy not want to go to a judge to get a divorce?
(a) Fear of publicity.
(b) Fear of Lee’s temper.
(c) Fear of losing custody.
(d) Shame for her childrearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Byrdie go with his friends on a chartered jet?

2. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

3. What does Peggy do every time she comes home to her shack?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

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

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

5. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

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

8. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

10. What is Lomax’ background?

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