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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 the narrator say the newcomers want the PTA to do?

2. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?

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

4. How does it come to pass that Mike spends the day after the Thetan House Halloween party at the police station?

5. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Who is one person who would love this book, and why? Who is one person who would hate this book, and why? What does the book tell you about the people? What do these two people’s judgments tell you about the book?

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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