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

2. How does Dee characterize white people’s food?
(a) Things made to look like other things.
(b) Things made from industrial ingredients.
(c) Things you cannot identify.
(d) Things that are not what they seem.

3. What movie does Karen make the interviewer from UVA think of?
(a) Cabaret.
(b) Taxi Driver.
(c) Legally Blonde.
(d) Sweet Charity.

4. What does Meg suggest giving up drug dealing for?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Squirrels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

2. What mythical symbol does Karen say she and Temple make when they make love?

3. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?

4. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?

5. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the secret society Byrdie joins at the University of Virginia?

2. How does Meg finally make her breakthrough as a writer?

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

4. What causes Meg to reassess her appearance, and what does she find when she does?

5. How do Lomax and Meg end up at the Squirrel Sanctuary?

6. What is the outcome of the court scene?

7. How does Karen end up involved deciphering Temple’s love letters?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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