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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. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?

2. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?

3. What does Byrdie say his purpose is, after a year of school?

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

5. What reason do Karen and Temple give for not coming out of Karen’s room much over the holidays?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

6. Why is Meg more afraid than comforted when she meets Diane, whom she identifies as another lesbian?

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

8. What is the outcome of the court scene?

9. How does Meg meet Luke?

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

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

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

Evaluate your own reading of Mislaid—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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