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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?
(a) A travel allowance.
(b) Immunity from sexual harassment complaints.
(c) Money for a literary magazine.
(d) Control over hiring and firing in the English department.

2. What does Lee do with Peggy’s things after she leaves?
(a) Donates them to the college.
(b) Sends them to her parents.
(c) Saves them in storage.
(d) Throws them out.

3. How does Lee’s AIDS scare start?
(a) With loss of appetite.
(b) With a rash of sores.
(c) With a fever.
(d) With a letter from an old lover.

4. How does Peggy characterize the poets who come to visit Lee?
(a) Lazy loafers.
(b) Posers and frauds.
(c) Bullshitting parasites.
(d) Foul-mouthed gods.

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

6. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Crimson.
(d) Dark blue.

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

8. What is Karen’s real name?
(a) Griselda.
(b) Mireille.
(c) Anaïs.
(d) Butterfly.

9. How much does Meg get when she sells worms?
(a) 1 cent per worm.
(b) Four cents per worm.
(c) 25 cents per worm.
(d) 10 cents per worm.

10. How much does Meg get for selling a dead raccoon to a bait shop?
(a) $22.
(b) $35.
(c) $10.
(d) $6.

11. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Modern.
(d) Restoration.

12. What does Meg say she is not willing to do in order to get good clothes for Karen?
(a) Sort through tag sales.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Shop at Salvation Army stores.
(d) Pay full price.

13. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?
(a) Gregory Corso.
(b) Anne Sexton.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Mark Strand.

14. How does Lee console himself after he finds that Byrdie’s perfections make him feel bad about himself?
(a) By riding a horse into the woods.
(b) By getting ice cream.
(c) By swimming in the lake.
(d) By shopping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

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

3. What is the high point of Temple’s birthday parties?

4. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

5. What was the main building of Stillwater College before it was a college?

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