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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?

2. What does the narrator says that the ruling class is made up of?

3. Why does the narrator say people came to visit Stillwater College from all over?

4. What kind of reading material has Peggy brought with her to the shack?

5. What does Peggy do every time she comes home to her shack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Karen do to raise funds to live on?

2. What does the narrator say is Byrd Flemings social status in high school?

3. Where does the narrator see Mireille’s “spiritual kinship” with Lee (86)?

4. How does Lee’s poetry change as his con grows up?

5. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

6. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

7. What is the house like where Meg and Karen take refuge?

8. Why does Peggy flee from Lee’s house?

9. What is Lomax’ background?

10. How does the narrator know Meg is burdened by the lies she tells Karen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Mislaid. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Mislaid. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

Does Mislaid have a message, or teachable moments, where the humorous qualities recede, and meaningful things take place? How does Mislaid either use or evade that humor, to get that meaning across?

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