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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 Donna obsessed with the first night she stayed at Trish's house?
2. What activity gave Donna a sense of freedom and beauty?
3. What smell did Donna associate with her grandmother?
4. Donna had to catch a bus and a _____ to get to her school, which was three suburbs away from her house.
5. Donna characterizes Chris as a _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Donna do to one of her dolls as a result of feeling that something was missing in her life?
2. How did Donna's mother make her life intolerable because of the jealousy of her musical abilities?
3. 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?
4. How did Donna's father begin to act as she got older?
5. Why did Tom come to Donna's flat and what happened as a result?
6. What happened when Donna's mother was going to put her into a children's home?
7. What was significant about the carpet in Donna's attic?
8. How did Donna symbolically 'murder part of herself'?
9. How did Donna feel about the sound of the piano?
10. What did Donna do when her classmates got violent with Sara and the new boy in her primary school class?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how Donna's mother and brother began to tease her when she was twelve. What was the dynamic between the two of them? How did Donna's brother mock her? What effect did this have on Donna?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the relationship between Donna and her older brother and mother when she was twelve. How did they gang up on her? What did they call her? How did these things particularly terrorize Donna?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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