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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 does Donna call the first compromise she had found between Donna and Carol?

2. What did the doctor give to Donna to keep her occupied when she visited?

3. When Donna was three, she showed signs of _____.

4. What did the boys who followed Donna home from the local shop where she would call Robyn open in Donna's flat?

5. What did Terry call Donna when they finally spoke to each other for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would sometimes happen when Donna had night terrors?

2. How did Donna's mother react to her taking ballet classes?

3. How did Donna's father begin to act as she got older?

4. What happened when Donna's mother was going to put her into a children's home?

5. How did Donna eat at Robyn's house?

6. What did Donna do when her classmates got violent with Sara and the new boy in her primary school class?

7. How did Donna lose herself as a child?

8. What was Donna's first dream about?

9. How did Tom and Donna play together?

10. What was 'wonking' to Donna? What did this mean to her mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Donna's learning music on the piano. How did she express herself musically on the piano? How did her playing the piano affect her relationship with her mother?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Donna cut her wrists. What incident prompted this? Whose house did Donna go to for help? What reason did she give Mary for her behavior?

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