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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 Lomax Hunter’s racial background?
(a) Mixed-race descendent of blacks, whites and Natives.
(b) Descendent of slaves.
(c) Mattaponi Indian.
(d) White.

2. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1968.

3. 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 he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.

4. How much does Meg get for selling a dead raccoon to a bait shop?
(a) $22.
(b) $6.
(c) $35.
(d) $10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?

2. Which poets was Lee drawn to?

3. What does Lee spill on his pants when he thinks he sees Mireille in a parking lot?

4. What does the narrator says that the ruling class is made up of?

5. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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