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

2. How does Lee’s AIDS scare start?
(a) With a fever.
(b) With a rash of sores.
(c) With a letter from an old lover.
(d) With loss of appetite.

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

4. What does the narrator says that the ruling class is made up of?
(a) Sissies.
(b) Surgeons.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Dilettantes.

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?
(a) Anne Sexton.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Gregory Corso.
(d) Mark Strand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two character traits does Byrdie manage to combine in high school?

3. What was the response to the missing person ad Lee ran?

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

5. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

4. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

6. What is Peggy’s role as faculty wife like?

7. What is Byrdie’s effect on his classmates in high school?

8. How does Lee embarrass himself when he thinks he sees Mickey?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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