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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 the narrator characterize Lomax?

2. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?

3. When does Peggy feel most beautiful?

4. How does the narrator say Byrdie and his friends felt after they spent a night in New York city with a 35-year-old woman?

5. How does the narrator say Lee’s house is regarded among Byrdie’s friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mireille end up as Karen Brown?

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

5. How has the history of the integration of schools affected Temple’s family’s education?

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

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

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

9. What is Lee Fleming’s background?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

When is Mislaid most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 3

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the profanities and explicit scenes in Mislaid? Are they risky? Do they add more to the book than they lose in risk?

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