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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?
(a) Fairfax.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Fredericksburg.
(d) Reston.

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

4. What causes Peggy to drive Lee’s VW Thing into the lake?
(a) A fight in which he insults her.
(b) A fight in which he hits her.
(c) His affair with her friend.
(d) His destruction of her pottery.

5. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?
(a) The maintenance man.
(b) Her close friend.
(c) His student.
(d) His guest poet.

6. What is the thing Meg wants to tell Byrdie when she sees him at school?
(a) That he should treat his father’s advice with a grain of salt at the least.
(b) That she is sorry she left him, but Lee was impossible to live with.
(c) That she and Karen are laying low, but that she loves him.
(d) That a one-handed backhand is better than a two-handed backhand in tennis.

7. How does the narrator characterize Byrdie’s prose in his papers for school?
(a) Loquacious and verbose.
(b) As dry as he could make it.
(c) Erudite and technical.
(d) Flowery and romantic.

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

9. Where is Mislaid set?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

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

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

12. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?
(a) Affectionate and loyal.
(b) Tough and intimidating.
(c) Tender and fragile.
(d) Imperturbable and cool.

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

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

15. What is Byrdie’s name?
(a) Favreau.
(b) Harry.
(c) Rhys.
(d) Mortimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Karen Brown die?

2. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?

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

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

5. How does Lee pull out of the parking lot after he thinks he sees Mireille?

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