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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. Who is one of Mock's uncles on her father's side?

2. What insult does Mock's father frequently invoke in Chapter 2?

3. Who was Mock's closest friend in Chapter 4?

4. What is the name of Mock's grandmother who is her mother's mother?

5. What kind of work does Mock's father do for the neighbor who labels Mock's father a drug addict?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mock admire Auntie Wee Wee in Chapter 6?

2. What are Mock's memories of her Grandma Pearl like?

3. Where do Mock's parents send her in 1989 and why do they do this?

4. In Chapter 7, what are Mock's memories of her sister Cori when she moves back to Hawaii as a young person?

5. In Chapter 5, why does Mock pretend she is a girl named Keisha on the phone to her cousin's friend Alan?

6. What is Mock most afraid of, and how does she answer Aaron's question about her fears?

7. In the section titled New York 2009, why does Mock decide not to tell Aaron that she is a transgender woman on their first date?

8. Why does Mock get upset over the burning of the cake in Chapter 5?

9. What does Mock's childhood friend Marilyn dare her to do in Chapter 1 and what is the significance of the dare?

10. Why does Mock decide to tell Aaron after a while that she is a transgender woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Mock's affinity for pop culture in the form of music, movies, television, and magazines inform her sense of what girls and women are supposed to look and behave like? Why do you think Janet loves these aspects of pop culture so much? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay detailing some of the ways in which Mock's father pressured her when she was young to conform to traditional ideas about masculinity. Why did her father do this, and how did Mock react to his efforts?

Essay Topic 3

How does Mock feel about the fact that her physical beauty has afforded her advantages as a transgender woman that she knows many other people in similar situations to hers do not have? How does she feel when people tell her she is lucky that most people would never be able to tell the gender she was assigned at birth was male? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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