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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What jewels are on the ring that Jess gives to Theresa?
(a) Diamond and sapphires.
(b) Emeralds.
(c) Pearls.
(d) Diamond and rubies.

2. What would happen if gays were to fight back against the police during beatings?
(a) They would get beaten even worse.
(b) They would be denied a phone call.
(c) They would be denied meetings with their lawyers.
(d) They would be sent to solitary confinement.

3. Who is the attractive woman that Jess meets at the cannery?
(a) Melissa.
(b) Amy.
(c) Theresa.
(d) Annette.

4. What decision does Jess finally make?
(a) She is going to have a sex change operation.
(b) She will remain the way she is to keep Theresa.
(c) She can no longer live as a masculine woman.
(d) She is going to move back home.

5. At the football field, Jess is verbally assaulted with anti-Semitic and ____________ taunts.
(a) anti-stupid.
(b) anti-lesbian.
(c) anti-red hair.
(d) anti-fat.

6. A lesbian who dresses and behaves like a traditional man is called ___________________.
(a) a stone butch lesbian.
(b) a transsexual.
(c) aggressive.
(d) confused.

7. What is common at the gay bars?
(a) Drug raids.
(b) Police raids.
(c) Rapes.
(d) Bar fights.

8. Gay men who dress like women are called _________________.
(a) fags.
(b) drag queens.
(c) homophobes.
(d) queers.

9. After Theresa is fired at the cannery, where does Jess see her again?
(a) Starbucks.
(b) Kroger's.
(c) Abba's.
(d) Olive Garden.

10. Butch Al has the masculine clothes, strength of form, and ________________ that Jess dreams about having.
(a) aura of command.
(b) condo.
(c) car.
(d) motorcycle.

11. What had Jess been doing with some other women at the factory prior to her termination?
(a) Singing.
(b) Picketing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Eating.

12. With whom does Jess spend much of her time after school?
(a) Barbara.
(b) Celine.
(c) Butch Al.
(d) Jacqueline.

13. Which of the following do Butch Al and Jacqueline NOT teach Jess?
(a) How to dress.
(b) How to write a resume.
(c) How to have sex.
(d) How to live the butch life.

14. The general consensus in the 1960s was that if the police roughed you up, ____________________.
(a) they would do it again.
(b) you probably had it coming.
(c) you should get out of town.
(d) you had grounds for a lawsuit.

15. How many articles of clothing associated with his or her biological sex did a cross-dresser have to wear in order to avoid arrest?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jess working at the beginning of Chapter 7?

2. How is the factory best characterized in the story?

3. What was one of Butch Ro's last wishes?

4. What do Muriel, Yvonne and some of the other women NOT bring to Jess after she is terminated?

5. What is the name of the bar Gloria tells Jess about?

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