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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 Mo-Maw unhappy with with her own appearance in Chapter 18?

2. What does Mungo tell James in Chapter 16 about Mrs. Campbell?

3. Who does Mungo kiss in Chapter 19?

4. What does Mo-Maw say she once did with James's father?

5. What does Mungo tell Gallowgate when he tries to touch Mungo sexually again in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does James tell Mungo he will do if Mungo participates in Hamish's crusade against the Catholics?

2. What does Mungo tell Gallowgate about St. Christopher in Chapter 17?

3. In Chapter 20, what does Jodie tell Mungo about Hamish?

4. What had Mr. Gillespie once promised Jodie he would help her to do?

5. In Chapter 15, what does the reader find out about Gallowgate's past?

6. In Chapter 22, what does Gallowgate say about St. Christopher's absence?

7. How does Jodie get rid of her pregnancy?

8. In Chapter 13, what does Jodie ask Mungo to do that he hates doing?

9. In Chapter 14, what does Mungo do to St. Christopher?

10. What does James tell Mungo he has to do to make his father happy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the general attitude in Glasgow towards gay people, especially towards gay men and boys? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What does Hamish's telling the police that he is Mungo symbolize at the very end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What is the Glaswegian cultural expectation of masculinity and success, and how does Hamish embody some of it? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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