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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 major does Byrdie expect to sign up for when he arrives at the University of Virginia?
(a) Business.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Music.
(d) English.

2. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?
(a) King Lear.
(b) The Aeneid.
(c) The Confessions of St. Augustine.
(d) Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

3. How do Lomax and Meg end up founding the Squirrel Conservation Association?
(a) They want to launder their drug money.
(b) They are bequeathed the land by the Seal.
(c) They inherit money from Meg’s family.
(d) They are invited to be founders with Lomax’ dad.

4. Where does Temple go to take refuge when Flea and Karen arouse him?
(a) The sheltering sky.
(b) His happy place.
(c) He has a drink.
(d) His room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meg suggest giving up drug dealing for?

2. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?

3. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?

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

5. What does Meg say Karen knows about her “business dealings” (203)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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