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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 is the Thetan House known for at University of Virginia?

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

3. What is it that causes Dee to raise her expectation for Temple’s college plans from community college to University of Virginia?

4. What is Meg’s “feminist encounter group” talking about when she shows up (111)?

5. What would Byrdie’s “imaginary planning bureau “R and D” be in charge of (156)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Karen end up involved deciphering Temple’s love letters?

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

5. How does the narrator characterize the secret society Byrdie joins at the University of Virginia?

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

7. What is the sheltering sky, and what does it mean to Temple?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

What makes Mislaid a fun book to read? What lines or scenes, in particular, are enjoyable to read, and why? How does Zink create the effects that are enjoyable? Pay attention to the language she uses, and tease out the literary devices she used to arrive at the satisfaction you found.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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