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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 does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

2. What does Lee say all poems are about?

3. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

4. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?

5. What is the high point of Temple’s birthday parties?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the house like where Meg and Karen take refuge?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

7. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

8. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is Mislaid most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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

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?

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