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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 does Lee turn to when he feels washed up in poetry?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Biography.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Fiction.

2. What does Lee spill on his pants when he thinks he sees Mireille in a parking lot?
(a) Books.
(b) Paint.
(c) Corn chowder.
(d) French fries.

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

4. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?
(a) Bullfrogs.
(b) Crickets.
(c) Trucks on the highway.
(d) Pine needles in the breeze.

5. When does Lee date the rise of fashion to at Stillwater College?
(a) The inauguration of JFK.
(b) Early Warhol films.
(c) The publication of Ms. magazine.
(d) The day the college got TV.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

2. How does the narrator say Lee’s house is regarded among Byrdie’s friends?

3. How does Lee pull out of the parking lot after he thinks he sees Mireille?

4. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?

5. What does Lee say all poems are about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

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

4. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Zink describe Mireille’s relationship with her father?

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

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