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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. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s college vision of life?

2. What do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?

3. What does Byrdie join when he gets to University of Virginia?

4. How troubled does the narrator say Byrdie is about his indictment for felony charges of distribution of hard drugs?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Meg manage to get by when someone from Fleming Oil recognizes her and connects her to Lee?

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

4. What is the career opportunity that opens up for Meg when Lomax meets the man known as “the Seal” (116)?

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

6. What are Meg’s three fears about getting caught dealing drugs?

7. What are the costumes Karen and Temple wear to the Halloween party at Thetan House?

8. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

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

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 is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Is Mislaid farce, satire or caricature? Which of these genres is it most comfortable in? In what way might that genre still not fit exactly?

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