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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poet previously owned the jacket Temple has borrowed from Byrdie?
(a) Charles Simic.
(b) Billy Collins.
(c) Phil Levine.
(d) Mark Strand.

2. What is Meg’s “feminist encounter group” talking about when she shows up (111)?
(a) A course in sex magic.
(b) Faking orgasms.
(c) Women to keep husbands away from.
(d) Sex with black men.

3. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?
(a) White.
(b) Mattaponi Indian.
(c) Mixed-race descendent of blacks, whites and Natives.
(d) Descendent of slaves.

4. What effect does Temple have on the interviewer from UVA?
(a) He blows him away.
(b) He underwhelms.
(c) He makes him forget his interview questions.
(d) He makes him laugh derisively.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lee say all poems are about?

2. What makes Meg distrust Diane, the women she identifies as another lesbian?

3. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s college vision of life?

4. How old is the newspaper Peggy finds on the shelves in the shack she takes Karen to?

5. What does the narrator say Meg feels when she sits down with Lee, Byrdie and Karen?

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