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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 one thing does Lee say made the “South go away overnight” (133).

2. Why does Meg say Temple makes her feel like a mother?

3. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?

4. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?

5. What was it that got the Cockpit bar shut down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Meg to reassess her appearance, and what does she find when she does?

2. Why is the case of the drug bust frustrating for the district attorney?

3. How does Meg meet Luke?

4. What changes lead Meg and Karen to leave their shack and move to a housing development?

5. How do Lomax and Meg end up at the Squirrel Sanctuary?

6. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

7. How do Lomax and Flea react when Meg tells them that she is really Lee Fleming’s wife?

8. What kind of awakening does Temple have when he reads Invisible Man?

9. How does Meg finally make her breakthrough as a writer?

10. What does Dee say about race and cooking, when she visits Temple and Dee at UVA?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the profanities and explicit scenes in Mislaid? Are they risky? Do they add more to the book than they lose in risk?

Essay Topic 3

What makes Mislaid so funny? What are the assumptions it riffs on? What are the expected types or actions or reactions it plays again, by providing the unexpected type, actions, reactions?

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