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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. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?

2. Why does the press conference the prosecutor plans not end up happening?

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

4. What is Temple’s career aspiration when he starts UVA?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

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

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

6. How does Byrdie meet Karen at Thetan House?

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

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

9. How does Meg finally make her breakthrough as a writer?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for Mislaid? What is the ideal reader for Mislaid likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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

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?

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