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

2. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?
(a) She wants to cook Luke a homemade meal.
(b) She wants to lecture her about manners.
(c) She wants to bring Luke home and live with her.
(d) She wants to jump out of the car.

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

4. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?
(a) Pushing out black families.
(b) More construction.
(c) Re-segregating the schools.
(d) Increasing the value of investment properties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luke writing a book about?

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

3. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg tell she feels like she is raising, in Karen?

4. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?

5. Where does the narrator say the women’s knowledge comes from in the feminist encounter group?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Meg meet Luke?

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

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

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

6. What is the outcome of the court scene?

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

8. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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