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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mike tell the cops the day after the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) That he never saw anyone with drugs.
(b) That Byrdie was the one who brought drugs into the house.
(c) That Karen and Temple were dealing acid.
(d) That he gave Karen the drugs.

2. What are the members of Thetan House smoking when Temple and Karen arrive?
(a) Crack.
(b) Hash.
(c) Clove cigarettes.
(d) Opium.

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

4. What does Karen remember Byrdie pairing intelligence with?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Protective contempt.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Dignity.

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

6. What is Meg’s reaction to Luke’s ignorance about Virginia culture?
(a) She wants to lecture her about manners.
(b) She wants to jump out of the car.
(c) She wants to cook Luke a homemade meal.
(d) She wants to bring Luke home and live with her.

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

8. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?
(a) The Jungle Book.
(b) If.
(c) The Seven Seas.
(d) Captains Courageous.

9. How does Luke characterize Meg’s authorial personality?
(a) Separatist.
(b) Technician.
(c) Bureaucrat.
(d) Insurrectionist.

10. How does Byrdie dispose of the drugs at Thetan House?
(a) He sneaks them out to his car and dumps them in the lake.
(b) He sticks them in the pockets of the coats of departing guests.
(c) He rolls them into meatballs and throws them into the neighborhood.
(d) He flushes them down the toilet.

11. Who does Mike want to say was responsible, when he makes his second statement in Chapter Nine?
(a) Himself.
(b) Karen.
(c) Byrdie.
(d) Temple.

12. What is the punch spiked with at the Thetan House Halloween party?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Grain alcohol.
(c) Tequila.
(d) Gin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Byrdie’s “imaginary planning bureau “R and D” be in charge of (156)?

2. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg tell she feels like she is raising, in Karen?

3. What does the narrator say is the ideal student like at UVA?

4. What are Karen and Temple looking for when they run into Byrdie?

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

(see the answer keys)

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