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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 do Mock and Chad eat on their journey from Oakland to their new destination in Chapter 5?

2. What is Mock's given name at Birth?

3. What does Mock remembering her father doing for her in Chapter 4 that demonstrated his great love for her?

4. Where do Mock and the man she is dating go for a second date in the section titled New York 2009?

5. Who regularly stood in as a babysitter and ad-hoc mother for Mock and Chad?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mock feel in Chapter 6 when she finds out she will be moving back to Hawaii to live with her mother?

4. In Chapter 4, why is Mock overwhelmed by her feelings of jealousy of her friend Maddy?

5. 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?

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

7. In the Introduction, how does Mock feel that transgender women have generally been depicted in popular culture?

8. In Chapter 4, what serious problem does Mock's father struggle with?

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

10. In Chapter 5, how does Mock's father Charlie describe himself to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Mock's relationship with her closest brother, Chad, evolve as they grow from childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay detailing some of the conflicting feelings Mock has, in hindsight, about the paid sex work she did while saving for her gender reassignment surgery.

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