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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Wiser.
(b) Cooler.
(c) Older.
(d) Younger.

2. What was the main building of Stillwater College before it was a college?
(a) A plantation.
(b) An army barracks.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A retirement home.

3. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?
(a) Surgeons.
(b) Bookkeepers.
(c) Street people.
(d) Morticians.

4. What does Peggy do every time she comes home to her shack?
(a) Inspect it for visitors.
(b) Unlock the gate.
(c) Say a prayer of thanksgiving.
(d) Lay the plank down over the moat.

5. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?
(a) Bug spray.
(b) An orange cap.
(c) Sunglasses.
(d) A sweater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Meg’s requirement for her career?

2. What does Karen want for Christmas?

3. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?

4. The narrator says that Lee and Byrdie look like advertisements for shirts and baby food: what does she say Peggy looks like?

5. What kind of writers does Lee start to cultivate after he feels washed-up in poetry?

(see the answer key)

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