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

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

3. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?
(a) Street people.
(b) Surgeons.
(c) Morticians.
(d) Bookkeepers.

4. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?
(a) His student.
(b) Her close friend.
(c) The maintenance man.
(d) His guest poet.

5. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Crimson.
(c) Pink.
(d) Dark blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?

2. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

3. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

4. How did Lomax get certified as unemployable?

5. How does the narrator say Byrdie and his friends felt after they spent a night in New York city with a 35-year-old woman?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

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

8. Why does Peggy flee from Lee’s house?

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

10. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

(see the answer keys)

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