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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 Lee turn to when he feels washed up in poetry?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Biography.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Fiction.

2. How does Meg prevent the truck driver who recognizes her from Stillwater College to keep quiet?
(a) She bribes him with money.
(b) She kills him.
(c) She threatens him.
(d) She bribes him with drugs.

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

4. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?
(a) As dry as he could make it.
(b) Erudite and technical.
(c) Flowery and romantic.
(d) Loquacious and verbose.

5. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?
(a) Increasing the value of investment properties.
(b) Pushing out black families.
(c) Re-segregating the schools.
(d) More construction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meg say she is not willing to do in order to get good clothes for Karen?

2. Why does Meg refuse to work as a waitress?

3. How does the narrator say Byrdie and his friends felt after they spent a night in New York city with a 35-year-old woman?

4. What does Lee do with Peggy’s things after she leaves?

5. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?

(see the answer key)

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