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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps the students at Stillwater College from swimming in the lake that borders the college?
(a) Alligators.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Toxic chemicals.
(d) Leeches.

2. What does Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?
(a) Telling her to leave.
(b) Negotiating between her and Lee.
(c) Begging her to stay.
(d) Badgering her for candy.

3. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?
(a) The flooding.
(b) The undergrowth.
(c) The bug situation.
(d) The hostile neighbors.

4. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?
(a) Captains Courageous.
(b) The Jungle Book.
(c) The Seven Seas.
(d) If.

5. Which famous writer’s footsteps does Peggy see herself following in?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Kate Chopin.
(d) Charlotte Brontë.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?

3. What is Meg’s breakthrough play about?

4. What kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

(see the answer key)

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