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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 are the members of Thetan House smoking when Temple and Karen arrive?

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

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

4. What does Temple say he saw on Lee’s face when Lee realized that Karen was his daughter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 elements that make Mislaid a Southern novel? How does the South appear in the novel, and what are the Southern traits of the main characters? How do the main characters relate to the South or Southern-ness? Do they embrace it? Repudiate it? Defy it? Endorse it?

Essay Topic 3

Does Mislaid have a message, or teachable moments, where the humorous qualities recede, and meaningful things take place? How does Mislaid either use or evade that humor, to get that meaning across?

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