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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 Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?
(a) Badgering her for candy.
(b) Telling her to leave.
(c) Negotiating between her and Lee.
(d) Begging her to stay.

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

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

4. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.
(b) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(c) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.
(d) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peggy do every time she comes home to her shack?

2. What kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?

3. What is Byrdie’s name?

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

5. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the house like where Meg and Karen take refuge?

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

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

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