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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 shocking information does Queenie find out in Chapter 1 while the messenger is behaving much too casually?
2. Queenie and which character get thrown out of the club after a young white woman touches Queenie without permission?
3. Queenie tells the reader in Chapter 1 that her boyfriend Tom accuses her of being what?
4. In Chapter 5, Queenie worries about neglecting which part of her life as of late?
5. In Chapter 7, the nurse at the sexual health clinic tells Queenie that he wants to see her back at the clinic in how many weeks?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose does Carty-Williams include a text from Darcy in Chapter 6 after Queenie has gone home with a stranger?
2. Provide a detail from Chapter 2 suggesting that Queenie relies too much on others' approval.
3. How is the Christmas Eve depicted in Chapter 12 different than any of Queenie's past three Christmas Eves?
4. What promise does Queenie make to herself at the beginning of Chapter 5?
5. What new definition of courage does Sylvie provide at the end of Chapter 12 and for what purpose?
6. What does Tom's shirt symbolize in Chapter 4?
7. What does the nurse at the sexual health clinic tell Queenie in Chapter 7 and what are his follow-up instructions?
8. Who is Diana?
9. With whom does Queenie go home in Chapter 6 and how does the encounter make her feel?
10. What types of men does Queenie encounter as a result of owning an OKCupid profile?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the role of family within the text Queenie. What types of family relationships are represented and how does Carty-Williams use their variety to inform many of the work's themes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why Carty-Williams instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Queenie.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Carty-Williams’s novel Queenie. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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