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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 would Byrdie’s “imaginary planning bureau “R and D” be in charge of (156)?

2. When do Meg and Karen move into the housing development?

3. What do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?

4. What does Meg suggest giving up drug dealing for?

5. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Meg meet Luke?

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

7. What does Dee say about race and cooking, when she visits Temple and Dee at UVA?

8. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

10. What is the outcome of the court scene?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the profanities and explicit scenes in Mislaid? Are they risky? Do they add more to the book than they lose in risk?

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

Is Mislaid farce, satire or caricature? Which of these genres is it most comfortable in? In what way might that genre still not fit exactly?

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