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This Is How It Always Is Quiz

Frankel, Laurie

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This Is How It Always Is by Frankel, Laurie

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Part I, Once Upon a Time, Claude Was Born

Part I, One Date - Residency

Part I, Bedtime Story – Losers

Part I, Air Currents and Other Winds – Halloween

Part I, Maybe – Invention

Part I, Naming Rights – Mapping

Part II, One Thing – Strategically Naked

Part II, Stalls – Annus Mirabilis

Part II, Preventative Madness – Fire

Part II, Hedge Enemies – Vagina Shopping

Part III, Exit Rows – Bonesetters

Part III, Oral Tradition

Part III, Under Pants – An Ending

Part IV, Ever – After

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How do the majority of Poppy’s classmates react to her return from Thailand? (from Part IV, Ever – After)

They flock to her and ask her to dance.

They are afraid to speak to her because they are so ashamed of themselves for making fun of her.

They continue to bully her about her body.

They treat her the same way they did before she was outed.

2.

What kind of experience has K had as a transgender Thai woman? (from Part III, Under Pants – An Ending)

She has become accepted after taking hormones and having surgery.

She lives under constant threat of intolerance and violence.

She has not modified her body, but is accepted anyway because Buddhists are tolerant toward transgender people.

She successfully passes as a cisgender woman.

3.

How does Penn react to sick children in the emergency room? (from Part I, One Date - Residency)

He recognizes the difference between narrative theory and reality.

He insists on finding meaning in their suffering.

He is so distraught that he cannot go back to the hospital.

He is eager to write stories about them.

4.

Why does Poppy readopt the name Claude again after being outed? (from Part III, Exit Rows – Bonesetters )

She thinks she needs to punish herself for lying to everyone.

She has gotten tired of the name Poppy.

She realizes that gender categories are irreal, so there was no point in changing her name in the first place.

Her classmates figure out that she used to go by Claude and start calling her that.

5.

When Claude is reprimanded for having a peanut butter sandwich on the first day of kindergarten, how does this initially affect his determination to wear a dress to school? (from Part I, Air Currents and Other Winds – Halloween)

He decides he needs to be less provocative, so he only wears accessories instead of a dress.

He refuses to go to school if he cannot wear a dress.

He stops feeling comfortable wearing dresses outside the home.

In a gesture of defiance, he becomes more adamant about wearing a dress.

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