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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?
(a) Someone who can be drunk and not show it.
(b) Someone whose parents can get them out of any trouble whatsoever.
(c) Someone who drinks in moderation, gets sufficient grades, and has fascinating activities.
(d) Someone who passed out drunk regularly, and still makes good grades.

2. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?
(a) The Aeneid.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
(d) The Confessions of St. Augustine.

3. How long after the Thetan House Halloween party does Meg read Karen’s letter about that night?
(a) Five days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

4. What is Byrdie playing on his ukulele when Karen and Temple show up at Thetan House?
(a) The Cure.
(b) Violent Femmes.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) Bruce Springsteen.

5. What is Meg’s take on the controversy about school funding?
(a) She calls for a new and bigger school.
(b) She advocates self-reliance.
(c) She advocates subservience to benefactors.
(d) She advocates socialism.

6. What major does Byrdie expect to sign up for when he arrives at the University of Virginia?
(a) Business.
(b) English.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Music.

7. What is Meg’s breakthrough play about?
(a) A lesbian vampire.
(b) Lesbians in Iran.
(c) A gay poet.
(d) A lesbian Antigone.

8. What does Byrdie say his purpose is, after a year of school?
(a) To distinguish himself with his accomplishments.
(b) To profit himself and his family.
(c) To earn a good woman’s trust.
(d) To serve his community’s needs.

9. Who does Temple suggest setting Meg up with?
(a) The District Attorney.
(b) The Seal.
(c) Flea.
(d) Lomax.

10. What doers the narrator say the call for better school facilities is a front for?
(a) Pushing out black families.
(b) Re-segregating the schools.
(c) Increasing the value of investment properties.
(d) More construction.

11. What is the effect of Meg’s discourse, in her feminist encounter group, on the relativity of gender?
(a) The women are hostile.
(b) The women are aroused.
(c) The women are fascinated.
(d) The women are aghast.

12. Where does the narrator say that pre-trial hearings unofficially take place?
(a) On a sailboat in the ocean.
(b) The country club.
(c) The golf course.
(d) The sauna at the gym.

13. How does Meg describe Karen’s father to the feminist encounter group?
(a) A docent.
(b) An entomologist.
(c) An audiologist.
(d) A linguist.

14. Why does the press conference the prosecutor plans not end up happening?
(a) Mike recants his testimony.
(b) Byrdie leaves town.
(c) Another student confesses.
(d) The judge puts a gag order on the case.

15. How does the truck driver who recognized Meg from Stillwater College die?
(a) In a traffic accident.
(b) From a mechanical failure in his truck.
(c) From a heart attack.
(d) In a freak fishing accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?

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

3. What was it that got the Cockpit bar shut down?

4. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?

5. Who does Meg confess her true story to in Chapter Ten?

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