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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. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?

2. Where does Meg hide her drugs in Chapter Six?

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

4. What choice does the narrator say Lee had given Peggy before she moved out?

5. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How do Temple and Karen end up going to UVA?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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