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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. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?
(a) Leisurely feeding and naps.
(b) Grinding housework.
(c) Exhausting days of colic.
(d) Exciting days in the garden.

2. What does Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?
(a) Negotiating between her and Lee.
(b) Telling her to leave.
(c) Begging her to stay.
(d) Badgering her for candy.

3. What kind of writers does Lee start to cultivate after he feels washed-up in poetry?
(a) Novelists.
(b) Literary journalists.
(c) Cookbook authors.
(d) Southern writers.

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

5. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?
(a) Helping the Browns request benefits.
(b) Helping the Browns with back taxes.
(c) A research project.
(d) A town survey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

2. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?

3. What is Byrdie’s name?

4. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?

5. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

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

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

4. What does Karen do to raise funds to live on?

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

6. What is the basis of Lee and Peggy’s attraction?

7. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

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

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