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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is GG related to Megan?
(a) GG is Megan's great-grandmother.
(b) GG is Megan's grandmother.
(c) GG is Megan's great-great grandmother.
(d) GG is Megan's great-aunt.

2. Where did Bibi grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Leeds.
(d) London.

3. Where were Lennox's parents from?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Guyana.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Nigeria.

4. When did the Education Act pass that made school free for all children in England, according to the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1939.

5. What does Roy Stevenson teach at Shirley's school in Chapter 3?
(a) Biology.
(b) English Literature.
(c) Physics.
(d) Geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Megan get a job after dropping out of school?

2. Who owns the bar Drunken Nostalgia?

3. Who is Shirley's father?

4. Who is the headmaster at the school when Shirley begins working there in Chapter 3?

5. What is the age difference between Karen and Rachel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Megan's relationship to GG?

2. Why does Penelope resent multiculturalism?

3. How did Megan's life change when she was 18?

4. What was Penelope's chldhood like?

5. How is the theme of prejudice explored through Shirley's character?

6. How is transgender defined?

7. How do Shirley and Amma know one another?

8. How is gender neutrality defined?

9. How did Megan's life change when she was 16?

10. How is Penelope's marriage to Giles described?

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