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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 choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?

2. When Meg looks in the mirror in Chapter Eight, what part of her fills her with lust?

3. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

4. What is the punch spiked with at the Thetan House Halloween party?

5. What major does Byrdie expect to sign up for when he arrives at the University of Virginia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Byrdie’s plans for a major and a career in the beginning of his time at college?

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

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

5. What is the “holy shit moment” that happens in the courtroom (215)?

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

7. How do Temple and Karen end up going to UVA?

8. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

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

10. How do Byrdie and Mike end up talking with the police after the party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent is Mislaid a novel about class? How does class figure in Mislaid, and how do characters like Lee and Peggy engage with the concept of class? Do they change relative to the ideas they start with, or do they change their ideas?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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