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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. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?
(a) Her baby sitter Susan.
(b) Her PE teacher Ms. Miller.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her best friend Debbie.

2. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?
(a) The hostile neighbors.
(b) The undergrowth.
(c) The bug situation.
(d) The flooding.

3. Why does Meg refuse to work as a waitress?
(a) The pay is not enough.
(b) It is too public.
(c) The hours are terrible.
(d) She is too clumsy.

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

5. What is Lomax Hunter’s racial background?
(a) Mixed-race descendent of blacks, whites and Natives.
(b) White.
(c) Mattaponi Indian.
(d) Descendent of slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peggy think poets resemble?

2. For how long was Peggy fixated on sleeping with Lee?

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

4. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?

5. How does the narrator characterize the persona Peggy acquired in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the house like, where Lee lives?

2. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

3. What is Peggy’s first meeting with Lee like?

4. What is Lomax’ background?

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

6. What is the house like where Meg and Karen take refuge?

7. Why does Lee’s private investigator ultimately give up his search for Peggy?

8. What does Karen do to raise funds to live on?

9. What does the narrator mean when she says that “Lee’s sex life was a lot like Byrdie’s” (102)?

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

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