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

2. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?
(a) They spoil them.
(b) They browbeat them.
(c) They lecture them.
(d) They ignore them.

3. What does Karen want for Christmas?
(a) A doll.
(b) A hamburger.
(c) A pony.
(d) A trip to the ocean.

4. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?
(a) Leave.
(b) Hit them in the nose.
(c) Turn her back.
(d) Tell a teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What makes Lee think that the girl he sees in the parking lot is his daughter?

3. Why does Peggy not want to go to a judge to get a divorce?

4. What does Meg say she is not willing to do in order to get good clothes for Karen?

5. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

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

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

5. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

6. How does the narrator know Meg is burdened by the lies she tells Karen?

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

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

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

10. What does the narrator say is Byrd Flemings social status in high school?

(see the answer keys)

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