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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Karen Brown die?

2. Where does Byrdie get drunk for the first time?

3. What does Karen’s Christmas wish make Peggy want?

4. What does Peggy do every time she comes home to her shack?

5. How does Lee console himself after he finds that Byrdie’s perfections make him feel bad about himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lee suppress the mutiny on the board of the Stillwater Review?

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

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

4. How does Zink describe Mireille’s relationship with her father?

5. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

6. What is Peggy Vaillaincourt’s background?

7. What is Lomax’ background?

8. What is the basis of Lee and Peggy’s attraction?

9. Where does the narrator see Mireille’s “spiritual kinship” with Lee (86)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Mislaid a good example of gay and lesbian literature? In what ways is it not a good example?

Essay Topic 2

Does Mislaid have a message, or teachable moments, where the humorous qualities recede, and meaningful things take place? How does Mislaid either use or evade that humor, to get that meaning across?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Mislaid? What is the ideal reader for Mislaid likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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