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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. In Chapter Ten, what does Meg say she is probably wanted for?
(a) Outstanding speeding tickets.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Possession of drugs.
(d) Selling cocaine.

2. How does the narrator characterize Temple’s mother, Dee?
(a) A dreamy romantic.
(b) A hard-nosed traditionalist.
(c) An impressionable kid.
(d) An unflappable realist.

3. How does Temple see himself once he starts at UVA?
(a) Childish.
(b) Graceful.
(c) Genius.
(d) Boorish.

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

5. What is the social change that ultimately causes Meg and Karen to move out of their shack?
(a) Demobilization.
(b) Mass mobilization.
(c) White flight.
(d) Gentrification.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dee characterize white people’s food?

2. Where does the narrator say that pre-trial hearings unofficially take place?

3. Which of Kipling’s works influenced Byrdie’s choice of major?

4. How does Lee handle the topic of Byrdie’s case over the holidays at his parents’ house?

5. Where does the narrator say the women’s knowledge comes from in the feminist encounter group?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Byrdie and Mike end up talking with the police after the party?

2. What is the outcome of the court scene?

3. What kind of awakening does Temple have when he reads Invisible Man?

4. What is the sheltering sky, and what does it mean to Temple?

5. How do Lomax and Meg skate by when a local cocaine bust does not touch them?

6. What are the costumes Karen and Temple wear to the Halloween party at Thetan House?

7. How do Lomax and Flea react when Meg tells them that she is really Lee Fleming’s wife?

8. How does Meg manage to get by when someone from Fleming Oil recognizes her and connects her to Lee?

9. How does the narrator characterize the secret society Byrdie joins at the University of Virginia?

10. What is the career opportunity that opens up for Meg when Lomax meets the man known as “the Seal” (116)?

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