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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 kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?
(a) Fox.
(b) Squirrel.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Sheared beaver.

2. What was the response to the missing person ad Lee ran?
(a) A smattering of crank calls.
(b) A few calls from Lynchburg.
(c) No response.
(d) Leads from all over the state.

3. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?
(a) Toxic chemicals.
(b) Alligators.
(c) Leeches.
(d) Bacteria.

4. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?
(a) As dry as he could make it.
(b) Flowery and romantic.
(c) Loquacious and verbose.
(d) Erudite and technical.

5. Which famous writer’s footsteps does Peggy see herself following in?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Charlotte Brontë.
(c) Kate Chopin.
(d) Jane Austen.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?

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

4. What is Lee’s mother’s objection to breastfeeding?

5. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

6. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

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

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

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

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