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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 Meg’s requirement for her career?

2. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?

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

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

5. What is Karen’s real name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

7. What is Lomax’ background?

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

9. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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