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

2. What does Lee say all poems are about?

3. What does Lee do with Peggy’s things after she leaves?

4. How much does Meg get for selling a dead raccoon to a bait shop?

5. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What are the elements that make Mislaid a Southern novel? How does the South appear in the novel, and what are the Southern traits of the main characters? How do the main characters relate to the South or Southern-ness? Do they embrace it? Repudiate it? Defy it? Endorse it?

Essay Topic 3

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Mislaid? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Mislaid.

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