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

2. What kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?

3. What is Lee’s mother’s objection to breastfeeding?

4. When did Karen Brown die?

5. Who was the first poet Lee invited to Stillwater College?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Peggy flee from Lee’s house?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How well does Karen fare in such a limited, impoverished environment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Mislaid? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Mislaid.

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

To what extent is Mislaid a novel about class? How does class figure in Mislaid, and how do characters like Lee and Peggy engage with the concept of class? Do they change relative to the ideas they start with, or do they change their ideas?

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