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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 did Carol drink with her medications and then dial Mary's home phone number?

2. Donna calls herself _____ in the Afterward..

3. Donna reports that in her childhood, she was not so much hyperactive as _____.

4. Donna had always experienced being touched emotionally as the threat of _____.

5. When Mary wrote out a prescription, Donna felt that she interpreted her condition as _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Donna believe that being sane or intelligent is not superior to being insane or retarded?

2. How did Donna teach Anne to calm herself down when she was anxious?

3. How did Donna learn of her father's capacity to be cruel to her?

4. Why didn't David want to work?

5. How did Donna and Bryn communicate with each other?

6. What happened when Donna called Mary at home after drinking alcohol and taking the pills she prescribed?

7. How did Donna feel when she gave her university professor a poem as a gift?

8. How did Donna and the Welshman play on the farm equipment and what is she reminded of when he gives her a hand up on one of the pieces of equipment?

9. How did Carol and Willie react to being in college?

10. How did Donna communicate with Perry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Donna acted in art class. What was her behavior like? How did Stella react to her?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the violence that Donna's mother would put her through when she came home from high school. What did Donna do one day to try to avoid the violence? What was the result? What did a voice in her head say when this was happening?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Donna's feelings about violence. What violence did she experience as a child? How did she react to this violence? What was more threatening to Donna's sensibilities than violence? How was this different from the way she perceived that other people lived?

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