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

2. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

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

4. How does Dee characterize white people’s food?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

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

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

6. How does Meg meet Luke?

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

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

9. How do Lomax and Meg skate by when a local cocaine bust does not touch them?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Mislaid a good example of gay and lesbian literature? In what ways is it not a good example?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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