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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. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?
(a) In a restaurant lot at night.
(b) In a shooting range.
(c) During driving lessons.
(d) In bed with Temple.

2. Where does Meg go after she reads Karen’s letter about the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) To see Byrdie.
(b) To see Karen at school.
(c) The squirrel refuge.
(d) To her parents’ house.

3. What is Luke writing a book about?
(a) A white lesbian police officer.
(b) A black lawyer.
(c) A black lesbian playwright.
(d) A white civil rights worker.

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

5. What does Byrdie use to chase the boys out of the room and save Karen from being assaulted?
(a) A sword.
(b) A lacrosse stick.
(c) A cane.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Meg’s “feminist encounter group” talking about when she shows up (111)?

2. How does Luke characterize Meg’s authorial personality?

3. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?

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

5. What was it that got the Cockpit bar shut down?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Byrdie and Mike end up talking with the police after the party?

5. What is the career opportunity that opens up for Meg when Lomax meets the man known as “the Seal” (116)?

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

7. What does Dee say about race and cooking, when she visits Temple and Dee at UVA?

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

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

10. How does Meg manage to get by when someone from Fleming Oil recognizes her and connects her to Lee?

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