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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mike tell the cops the day after the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) That Karen and Temple were dealing acid.
(b) That he never saw anyone with drugs.
(c) That Byrdie was the one who brought drugs into the house.
(d) That he gave Karen the drugs.

2. What makes Lee think that the girl he sees in the parking lot is his daughter?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her cheekbones.
(c) Her teeth.
(d) Her blond hair.

3. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.
(b) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.
(c) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(d) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.

4. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?
(a) Port Royal.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Portsmouth.

5. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poets was Lee drawn to?

2. When does Karen get the nickname Shadow?

3. What does the narrator say provided Temple’s mother Dee’s “one authentic encounter with the supernatural” (139)?

4. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?

5. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?

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