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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. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?
(a) In a traffic accident.
(b) From a mechanical failure in his truck.
(c) In a freak fishing accident.
(d) From a heart attack.

2. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?
(a) Her pride in her family heritage.
(b) Her whiteness.
(c) Her Ivy League education.
(d) Her wealth.

3. What does Temple say he saw on Lee’s face when Lee realized that Karen was his daughter?
(a) Unconditional love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Lust.
(d) Disgust.

4. How does it come to pass that Mike spends the day after the Thetan House Halloween party at the police station?
(a) He is there to press charges against Byrdie.
(b) He was arrested for DUI.
(c) He was caught in a sting operation.
(d) He is filing a missing persons report for Karen.

5. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?
(a) Something the world decides for each girl.
(b) Something a girl decides.
(c) Something a girl grows into.
(d) Something that is thrust on a girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

2. What is the Thetan House known for at University of Virginia?

3. What one thing does Lee say made the “South go away overnight” (133).

4. In Chapter Nine, what part of the evening does Temple want to keep secret?

5. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the “holy shit moment” that happens in the courtroom (215)?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Meg meet Luke?

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

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

9. What are Byrdie’s plans for a major and a career in the beginning of his time at college?

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

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