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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 kind of staff member at the sexual health clinic tells Queenie that her injuries are consistent with sexual violence?

2. Queenie and which character get thrown out of the club after a young white woman touches Queenie without permission?

3. Which character drives a black BMW and has been chasing Queenie relentlessly for years despite his status as a married man?

4. In Chapter 4, Queenie continues to receive messages from men who saw the profile her friends made for her on what app?

5. In the Christmastime flashback in Chapter 10, who has the idea to choose teams based on shirt color?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Queenie come to own an OKCupid profile in Chapter 3?

2. Which objects does Queenie mention as ones that she intends to carry with her throughout her life?

3. For what reason does Queenie travel to Oxford Street in Chapter 10?

4. What new definition of courage does Sylvie provide at the end of Chapter 12 and for what purpose?

5. For what purpose does Carty-Williams include a text from Darcy in Chapter 6 after Queenie has gone home with a stranger?

6. What incident of racially-motivated mistreatment occurs in Chapter 8 and to whom does it happen?

7. What promise does Queenie make to herself at the beginning of Chapter 5?

8. With whom does Queenie go home in Chapter 6 and how does the encounter make her feel?

9. What does the nurse at the sexual health clinic tell Queenie in Chapter 7 and what are his follow-up instructions?

10. What types of men does Queenie encounter as a result of owning an OKCupid profile?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Carty-Williams's decision to include humor within the fictional text of Queenie. What purpose did Carty-Williams have in mind when including these instances of humor and how does the inclusion of these instances support the overarching themes and messages of the text?

Essay Topic 2

What is the central purpose of the work Queenie? What response do you think Carty-Williams wants from the text’s audience? How does each character support Carty-Williams’s purpose?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Carty-Williams go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

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