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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. Where were Lennox's parents from?

2. Who owns the bar Drunken Nostalgia?

3. In what decade was Megan born?

4. Where did Bernadette live before moving near Winsome?

5. What surgery did Morgan describe having undergone when they spoke at Yazz's college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the early years of Clovis's and Winsome's marriage described?

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

4. What is Megan's relationship to GG?

5. Why does Penelope resent multiculturalism?

6. Why is Morgan in attendance at the play in the present-day narrative?

7. What are Winsome's current circumstances in the present-day timeline in Chapter 3? Where is she living?

8. How is language stressed in Megan/Morgan's narrative?

9. What was Shirley's outlook when she began teaching?

10. What was Penelope's chldhood like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of gender neutrality, gender expectations, and identity as explored in Megan/Morgan's narrative. How do Megan/Morgan's understanding and relationship to gender change in the course of this character's story? How does Megan/Morgan relate to the other characters in regard to gender? Why is this character significant in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss three examples of irony in Girl, Woman, Other. How is verbal irony employed? What is an example of situational irony? How does the author make use of dramatic irony? What purpose does each example serve?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Amma's play The Last Amazon of Dahomey. What is the subject of the work? What are its major themes? Why is the play significant to the plot in Girl, Woman, Other?

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