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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?
(a) Something a girl grows into.
(b) Something that is thrust on a girl.
(c) Something the world decides for each girl.
(d) Something a girl decides.

2. 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) Younger.
(c) Cooler.
(d) Older.

3. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?
(a) Turn her back.
(b) Leave.
(c) Hit them in the nose.
(d) Tell a teacher.

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

5. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?
(a) At school.
(b) At a steeplechase.
(c) In a museum.
(d) In a canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

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

3. How many meetings did it take for Lomax and Meg to be “intimate friends” (70)?

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

5. What is the initiation ritual for Thetan House like?

(see the answer key)

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