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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. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?

2. How does Lee’s AIDS scare start?

3. What makes Lee think that the girl he sees in the parking lot is his daughter?

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

5. Where does Lee go looking for Peggy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Peggy adapt to life as a mother?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Lomax’ background?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Mislaid so funny? What are the assumptions it riffs on? What are the expected types or actions or reactions it plays again, by providing the unexpected type, actions, reactions?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Mislaid. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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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