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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 do Karen and Temple go to Byrdie’s party as?

2. What book spills out of Temples pocket when the cop harasses him with Meg?

3. What conclusion does Meg come to when the truck driver who recognizes her dies in a wreck?

4. How does Meg characterize the acquisition of womanhood?

5. What does Meg say Karen knows about her “business dealings” (203)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karen end up involved deciphering Temple’s love letters?

2. How do Lomax and Meg skate by when a local cocaine bust does not touch them?

3. What are the costumes Karen and Temple wear to the Halloween party at Thetan House?

4. How did Karen get the nickname “Shadow” (139)?

5. How does Meg finally make her breakthrough as a writer?

6. How do Byrdie and Mike end up talking with the police after the party?

7. What are Byrdie’s plans for a major and a career in the beginning of his time at college?

8. How does Meg manage to get by when someone from Fleming Oil recognizes her and connects her to Lee?

9. What causes Meg to reassess her appearance, and what does she find when she does?

10. How do Lomax and Meg end up at the Squirrel Sanctuary?

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

Identify the most important plot points in Mislaid. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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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