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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. Which officer from the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit came to collect Hough from her house?

2. Why did Hough's mother say she should have known Gabe was not the right person for her?

3. What made Hough's prison experience more bearable?

4. What traumatic experience does the female Marine staff sergeant help Hough with?

5. What did Hough's mother tell her about the time she had spent with Gabe?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Hough realize she was pregnant?

2. What did Hough sometimes like about Gabe, her stepfather?

3. Why did Hough decide not to break up with Rhonda as planned?

4. How does Hough describe her time in jail?

5. How did Hough feel after returning to Texas with her mother after leaving the cult?

6. Why did the cult's threats about Hough's possible fate not have much of an effect on her in her childhood?

7. What did Rhonda do after their breakup that Hough thought crossed a line?

8. How did Autumn react when Hough saw her for the first time after her release from jail?

9. What did Gabe tell Hough about her homosexuality when she was a young girl?

10. How did Karen continue to haunt Hough's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hough use humor, and why do you think she employs humor how and when she does throughout this collection? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Hough's stepfather Gabe's abuse and behaviors towards Hough and her siblings affect Hough's later attitudes within her own romantic relationships? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Hough think her parents and many other people were so attracted to, and then in the thrall of, David Berg's Children of God Cult? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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