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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?
(a) Two or three months.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) A month.
(d) Three years.

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

4. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?
(a) The phoenix.
(b) The geeky girl.
(c) The Amazon.
(d) The Maoist.

5. What is Meg’s requirement for her career?
(a) Not having to have a college degree.
(b) Not having to leave the house.
(c) Not needing to use math.
(d) Not having to talk to anyone.

6. Why does Peggy not want to go to a judge to get a divorce?
(a) Shame for her childrearing.
(b) Fear of losing custody.
(c) Fear of Lee’s temper.
(d) Fear of publicity.

7. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?
(a) Helping the Browns with back taxes.
(b) Helping the Browns request benefits.
(c) A town survey.
(d) A research project.

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

9. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?
(a) Pine needles in the breeze.
(b) Crickets.
(c) Trucks on the highway.
(d) Bullfrogs.

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

11. How does the narrator say Lee’s house is regarded among Byrdie’s friends?
(a) Never never land.
(b) Oz.
(c) Xanadu.
(d) Timbuktu.

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

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

14. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?
(a) Leisurely feeding and naps.
(b) Grinding housework.
(c) Exhausting days of colic.
(d) Exciting days in the garden.

15. When does Lee date the rise of fashion to at Stillwater College?
(a) The publication of Ms. magazine.
(b) The inauguration of JFK.
(c) Early Warhol films.
(d) The day the college got TV.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two character traits does Byrdie manage to combine in high school?

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

3. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?

4. How does Karen characterize Temple’s role in her life?

5. Why does Meg refuse to work as a waitress?

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