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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 does Mock ask the woman who shows off her body after her GRS surgery?

2. How does Mock think she managed going to college and working on Merchant Street in hindsight?

3. What does Mock tell her mother when she is 13 years old?

4. From which author does Mock begin Part Three of the book with a quote from?

5. Why does Wendi eventually pass her hormone prescriptions on to Mock?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mock feel when Wendi drops out of school by the end of their junior year?

2. What happens to Mock's family life when her mother's old flame, Rick, moves in with the family in Chapter 9?

3. What significant opportunity does Mock take advantage of in Chapter 14 that allows her to pursue higher education?

4. How does being sexually available as a young teenager in Chapter 12 make Mock feel?

5. What problem does Mock almost immediately have with Rick after he moves in in Chapter 9?

6. How does taking Premarin change Mock's body in Chapter 10?

7. Why does Mock and her family move to a motel for a time in Chapter 12?

8. What is Mock's most prized possession in Chapter 9, the one that makes her feel most feminine?

9. Who does Mock meet in Chapter 13 that spurs her to start researching and saving for her gender reassignment surgery?

10. Why do Wendi and Mock first go to Merchant Street and what do they find there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay detailing how, when and why Mock's idolization of her mother began to change after she and Chad moved back in with her mother in Hawaii in 1995.

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