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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 scared Donna about taking Kath up on her offer?

2. Why did Donna think people who worked in banks were respected?

3. Donna calls herself _____ in the Afterward..

4. What did Kath do for a living?

5. What had Donna wanted to convey through her comedy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Donna teach Anne to calm herself down when she was anxious?

2. What was Donna's relationship like with Carlos and how did David react to this?

3. How did Carol and Willie react to being in college?

4. What did Donna realize when she met other autistic people?

5. Why was the label of autism not useless to Donna?

6. How did Donna feel when she gave her university professor a poem as a gift?

7. What was Donna's strategy for "letting go" so she could function in the world better?

8. What reason did Donna's father give for her family's belief that she was autistic as a child?

9. What was the conversation about between Donna and Shaun's father on the way to pick Shaun up from the train station?

10. Why did Donna feel secure with Kat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Donna's relationship with Bryn. How were their lives similar? What did Donna learn about herself in knowing Bryn?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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