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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee say all poems are about?
(a) The act of reading.
(b) The difficulty of carrying experience.
(c) The process of dying.
(d) The inevitability of resurrection.

2. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?
(a) The secretary.
(b) Their maintenance man.
(c) The nanny.
(d) The movie star.

3. What is Karen’s real name?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Anaïs.
(d) Mireille.

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

5. What is Peggy’s father’s line of work?
(a) Truck driver.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?

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

3. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

4. Why does the narrator say people came to visit Stillwater College from all over?

5. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?

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