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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Unlock the gate.
(d) Say a prayer of thanksgiving.

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

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

4. What does Karen’s Christmas wish make Peggy want?
(a) Money.
(b) A good lawyer.
(c) A family.
(d) Prestige.

5. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?
(a) An orange cap.
(b) A sweater.
(c) Bug spray.
(d) Sunglasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?

2. How does the narrator characterize the police’s response to Peggy’s disappearance?

3. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?

4. Where is Mislaid set?

5. Who is Lee’s bête noir on the Stillwater Review board?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator know Meg is burdened by the lies she tells Karen?

2. What is Peggy’s role as faculty wife like?

3. What is Byrdie’s effect on his classmates in high school?

4. How does Lee embarrass himself when he thinks he sees Mickey?

5. How does Meg pass herself and Karen off as black?

6. How would you explain the humor of Mislaid?

7. What is Lomax’ background?

8. How does the narrator describe the construction of Stillwater Lake?

9. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

10. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

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