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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 was the name of Donna's first chosen school friend?

2. What did Robyn's mother call the cuts on Donna's wrists?

3. What made Donna look like she was on drugs?

4. Donna called herself a _____ because of her double-jointed limberness.

5. What did Donna change into after she cut her wrists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tom and Donna play together?

2. How did Donna have trouble understanding the concept of a herd of cows?

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

4. What did Donna think when she saw children in the backyards of their grandmothers?

5. What did Donna do at work when she didn't have food to eat because Garry's sister had taken the food money for herself?

6. How did Donna understand the content of the stories she read in class?

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

8. How did Donna lose herself as a child?

9. How did Donna feel about the sound of the piano?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Carol's role in Donna's life. How and why did Donna take on this persona? What role did the Carol persona have in Donna's social expression of herself?

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 Donna's relationship with her Aunty Linda as she got older. What were her aunt's explanations for these questions? How did Donna react to hearing about the violence of her childhood?

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