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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 Lee pull out of the parking lot after he thinks he sees Mireille?
(a) At full speed.
(b) At a miserable crawl.
(c) Blindly.
(d) In reverse.

2. Why does Peggy leave Lee?
(a) Rage at his cruelty to her.
(b) Spite.
(c) Fear of being committed to a mental institution.
(d) Fear of poverty.

3. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?
(a) Control over hiring and firing in the English department.
(b) A travel allowance.
(c) Immunity from sexual harassment complaints.
(d) Money for a literary magazine.

4. How does the narrator characterize the police’s response to Peggy’s disappearance?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Feverish interest.
(c) Slow and sloppy investigation.
(d) Casual, professional curiosity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?

2. What kind of writers does Lee start to cultivate after he feels washed-up in poetry?

3. Where is Mislaid set?

4. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?

5. Which poets was Lee drawn to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

3. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

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

6. How does Meg pass herself and Karen off as black?

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

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

9. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

(see the answer keys)

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