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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. When does Lee date the rise of fashion to at Stillwater College?

2. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?

3. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?

4. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?

5. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the construction of Stillwater Lake?

2. What is the basis of Lee and Peggy’s attraction?

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

4. How does the narrator characterize Karen’s memories of her brother and her life at Lee’s house?

5. Why does Lee’s private investigator ultimately give up his search for Peggy?

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

7. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

9. How does Lee embarrass himself when he thinks he sees Mickey?

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

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

To what extent is Mislaid a novel about class? How does class figure in Mislaid, and how do characters like Lee and Peggy engage with the concept of class? Do they change relative to the ideas they start with, or do they change their ideas?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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