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

2. Why does the district attorney feel he owes Byrdie a debt of gratitude?

3. What is Meg’s breakthrough play about?

4. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

5. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What writing advice does Luke give Meg?

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

7. How does Meg meet Luke?

8. How did Karen get the nickname “Shadow” (139)?

9. What is the outcome of the court scene?

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

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

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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