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

2. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?
(a) A dozen.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

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

4. Where does Byrdie go with his friends on a chartered jet?
(a) DC for a rally.
(b) New York for the museums.
(c) Key West for scuba diving.
(d) Savannah for fishing.

5. What is Peggy’s father’s line of work?
(a) Truck driver.
(b) Priest.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Engineer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Karen’s Christmas wish make Peggy want?

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

4. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

2. How has the history of the integration of schools affected Temple’s family’s education?

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

4. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was it that caused Lee’s “irreplaceable VW Thing” to end up in the lake (29)?

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