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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 does Meg suggest giving up drug dealing for?

2. What is Byrdie playing on his ukulele when Karen and Temple show up at Thetan House?

3. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?

4. Where does the narrator say that pre-trial hearings unofficially take place?

5. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

10. How does Meg meet Luke?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Identify the most important plot points in Mislaid. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the ending of Mislaid. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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