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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) From a heart attack.
(d) In a freak fishing accident.

2. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg tell she feels like she is raising, in Karen?
(a) A horse.
(b) An iguana.
(c) A bird of paradise.
(d) A kitten.

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

4. How is it that Temple ends up with his head in Karen’s lap and his feet in Flea’s hands?
(a) He passes out in the heat.
(b) He sprains his ankle.
(c) He falls off a deck.
(d) He trips on a root and injures his knee.

5. What does Byrdie join when he gets to University of Virginia?
(a) A squash team.
(b) A secret society.
(c) A debating society.
(d) A fraternity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role does Mike want Karen to play in his ritual?

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

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

5. What is it that causes Dee to raise her expectation for Temple’s college plans from community college to University of Virginia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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