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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 the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?
(a) Someone who can be drunk and not show it.
(b) Someone who drinks in moderation, gets sufficient grades, and has fascinating activities.
(c) Someone who passed out drunk regularly, and still makes good grades.
(d) Someone whose parents can get them out of any trouble whatsoever.

2. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Flea.
(c) The District Attorney.
(d) The Seal.

3. What mythical symbol does Karen say she and Temple make when they make love?
(a) A yin-yang.
(b) An oroboros.
(c) A swastika.
(d) A Mobius strip.

4. What is the social change that ultimately causes Meg and Karen to move out of their shack?
(a) White flight.
(b) Mass mobilization.
(c) Gentrification.
(d) Demobilization.

5. How long after the Thetan House Halloween party does Meg read Karen’s letter about that night?
(a) Five days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?

2. What does the narrator say the newcomers want the PTA to do?

3. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

4. Why does Meg say Temple makes her feel like a mother?

5. What is Lee’s reaction when Byrdie shows him his poetry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lomax and Meg skate by when a local cocaine bust does not touch them?

2. What changes lead Meg and Karen to leave their shack and move to a housing development?

3. How do Lomax and Flea react when Meg tells them that she is really Lee Fleming’s wife?

4. Why is Meg more afraid than comforted when she meets Diane, whom she identifies as another lesbian?

5. What are the costumes Karen and Temple wear to the Halloween party at Thetan House?

6. What kind of awakening does Temple have when he reads Invisible Man?

7. What is the outcome of the court scene?

8. How do Temple and Karen end up going to UVA?

9. What are Meg’s three fears about getting caught dealing drugs?

10. How did Karen get the nickname “Shadow” (139)?

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