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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. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

2. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

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

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

5. What is Karen’s real name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Lomax’ background?

4. How does Lee suppress the mutiny on the board of the Stillwater Review?

5. How does Meg pass herself and Karen off as black?

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

7. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

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

9. What was it that caused Lee’s “irreplaceable VW Thing” to end up in the lake (29)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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