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

2. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

3. Which famous writer’s footsteps does Peggy see herself following in?

4. What does Meg tell Karen to do if anyone ever calls her ‘the N-word’?

5. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

8. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

9. How does the narrator know Meg is burdened by the lies she tells Karen?

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

Who is one person who would love this book, and why? Who is one person who would hate this book, and why? What does the book tell you about the people? What do these two people’s judgments tell you about the book?

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

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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