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

2. What is the effect of Meg’s discourse, in her feminist encounter group, on the relativity of gender?
(a) The women are aghast.
(b) The women are hostile.
(c) The women are aroused.
(d) The women are fascinated.

3. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?
(a) A friend.
(b) A bathroom.
(c) Drinks.
(d) The exit.

4. Where does Meg hide her drugs in Chapter Six?
(a) In a pressure cooker.
(b) Under the bed.
(c) In a ceramic jar.
(d) In her luggage.

5. Why does the district attorney feel he owes Byrdie a debt of gratitude?
(a) For making the case so easy.
(b) For being a high-profile white defendant.
(c) For letting him show his talents.
(d) For helping his career.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?

2. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?

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

4. Which poet previously owned the jacket Temple has borrowed from Byrdie?

5. Where does the narrator say Karen’s “common-sensical, matter-of-fact way of approaching things” comes from (160)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the outcome of the court scene?

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

4. Why is the case of the drug bust frustrating for the district attorney?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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