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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. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

2. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

3. What is Byrdie’s name?

4. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

5. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zink describe Mireille’s relationship with her father?

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

3. What kind of efforts does Lee make to find Peggy and Mireille?

4. How has the history of the integration of schools affected Temple’s family’s education?

5. What is the house like, where Lee lives?

6. What is Byrdie’s effect on his classmates in high school?

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

8. What does the narrator mean when she says that “Lee’s sex life was a lot like Byrdie’s” (102)?

9. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Mislaid a fun book to read? What lines or scenes, in particular, are enjoyable to read, and why? How does Zink create the effects that are enjoyable? Pay attention to the language she uses, and tease out the literary devices she used to arrive at the satisfaction you found.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Who is the audience for Mislaid? What is the ideal reader for Mislaid likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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