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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 is the name of the neighborhood boy Mock engages in sexual acts with at a young age?
2. Mock opens Part Two of the book with a quote from which author?
3. What is the name of Mock's father's mistress in Chapter 1?
4. When do Chad and Mock move back to Hawaii to be with their mother?
5. What does Mock decide to tell Aaron in the end of the section titled New York 2009?
Short Essay Questions
1. When does it finally hit Mock as a child that her father is addicted to drugs?
2. What is Mock most afraid of, and how does she answer Aaron's question about her fears?
3. In Chapter 4, what serious problem does Mock's father struggle with?
4. What does Mock's childhood friend Marilyn dare her to do in Chapter 1 and what is the significance of the dare?
5. In Chapter 5, what terrible event prompts Mock, her father, and her brother Chad to move to Texas?
6. What does Mock believe, as an adult, are some of the consequences of Derek's sexual abuse of her?
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. In Chapter 4, why is Mock overwhelmed by her feelings of jealousy of her friend Maddy?
9. In the Introduction, how does Mock feel that transgender women have generally been depicted in popular culture?
10. In Chapter 2, what does Mock's father force her to do to prove that she has masculine traits?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who were some of Mock's earliest and most significant role models for what womanhood and femininity looked like? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text in support.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the different meanings and nuances of the idea of "passing" as Mock explains it - including the gender, economic, and racial implications of the idea.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay detailing how and why Mock's connection and relationship with Aaron seems different to her than any previous relationship she has ever been in.
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