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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 is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Port Royal.
(c) Portsmouth.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. What does Karen’s Christmas wish make Peggy want?
(a) A good lawyer.
(b) Money.
(c) A family.
(d) Prestige.

3. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?
(a) Her baby sitter Susan.
(b) Her best friend Debbie.
(c) Her PE teacher Ms. Miller.
(d) Her mother.

4. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Six.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of reading material has Peggy brought with her to the shack?

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

3. Why does the narrator say people came to visit Stillwater College from all over?

4. What famous author does Lee turn to, in Peggy’s absence?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

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

4. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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