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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. How many of Queenie's roommates have gone to stay with their families during the holidays, as revealed in Chapter 14?

2. When Chapter 24 begins, Queenie is turning how many years old?

3. Queenie tells the reader in Chapter 14 that Ted has taken what action?

4. Which letter of the alphabet does Tom tack onto the end of his text message in the wee hours of New Year's Day?

5. What kind of activity is Queenie performing in Chapter 14 when New Year's Day arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Queenie come to attend a number of sessions with Janet, despite her initial feelings?

2. What major life change does Queenie undergo in Chapter 22?

3. In what way does the theme of betrayal arise within Chapter 18?

4. Which birthday does Queenie celebrate in Chapter 24 and how does her mother Sylvie commemmorate it?

5. Discuss an instance when Carty-Williams uses irony to highlight the humor inherent in a particular situation.

6. To whom does Queenie send a text message at the start of Chapter 19 and why?

7. Discuss the significance of Gina's use of the words "radical" and "palatable" (190) in relation to Queenie's request to write an article in Chapter 16.

8. What decision does Queenie make about her friendships in Chapter 22 and what action does she then take?

9. How does the theme of regret arise within Chapter 13?

10. Describe Queenie's first session with Janet.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how and why Carty-Williams instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Queenie.

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

William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Carty-Williams’s novel Queenie. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.

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