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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 is Lee’s mother’s objection to breastfeeding?
(a) She does not think it’s nutritious.
(b) She sees it as indulgent.
(c) It makes the baby dependent on the mother.
(d) She thinks it creates narcissists.

2. When did Karen Brown die?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1970.

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

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

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?
(a) Gregory Corso.
(b) Mark Strand.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Anne Sexton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Byrdie say he distinctly remembers about his mother?

3. What does Lee turn to when he feels washed up in poetry?

4. Where is Peggy Vaillaincourt from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it that caused Lee’s “irreplaceable VW Thing” to end up in the lake (29)?

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

3. What is Lomax’ background?

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

5. What does the narrator say is Byrd Flemings social status in high school?

6. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

8. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

9. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

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