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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 Peggy’s father’s line of work?

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

3. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?

4. What is Lomax’ father’s hobby?

5. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Peggy’s role as faculty wife like?

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

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

6. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Mislaid. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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

In what ways is Mislaid a good example of gay and lesbian literature? In what ways is it not a good example?

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