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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 Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?

2. What is the first method Meg finds for making money?

3. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?

4. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?

5. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How well does Karen fare in such a limited, impoverished environment?

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

Who is one person who would love this book, and why? Who is one person who would hate this book, and why? What does the book tell you about the people? What do these two people’s judgments tell you about the book?

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