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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of jobs had Donna done for her father when her mother decided she had to get a real job at fifteen years old?
(a) Babysitter.
(b) Cook.
(c) House cleaner.
(d) Wood chopper.

2. What made Donna look like she was on drugs?
(a) Her erratic facial movements.
(b) The scratches on her arms.
(c) The hairstyle she wore.
(d) Her huge pupils.

3. How did Donna feel around her older brother when he would come to visit?
(a) Like she was his maid.
(b) Like she was a princess.
(c) Like she was under her mother's bed.
(d) Like she was on automatic pilot.

4. What did Robyn's mother call the cuts on Donna's wrists?
(a) Artwork.
(b) Burns.
(c) Scratches.
(d) Tattoos.

5. What did Donna bring with her to Trish's house?
(a) A little suitcase.
(b) A garbage bag.
(c) A puppy.
(d) Her brother's book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Donna's little brother frightened her because he made her feel _____.

2. The Hogan's backyard had _____ in it.

3. What became important to Mr. Reynolds at the end of the school year where Donna had done poorly?

4. What did Donna's mother throw at her when she came into the shop where Donna was working and figured out that she had lost all her money?

5. The tiny, transparent creatures that hovered over Donna when she tried to fall asleep were what she called _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Donna feel about the sound of the piano?

2. What was 'wonking' to Donna? What did this mean to her mother?

3. What did Donna think when she saw children in the backyards of their grandmothers?

4. What did Donna do to one of her dolls as a result of feeling that something was missing in her life?

5. What did Donna do at work when she didn't have food to eat because Garry's sister had taken the food money for herself?

6. How did Donna's father begin to act as she got older?

7. What did the history teacher at Donna's last school like to talk about in class?

8. What happened when Donna's mother was going to put her into a children's home?

9. What was Donna's relationship like with the three-year-old daughter of Garry's sister?

10. How did Donna symbolically 'murder part of herself'?

(see the answer keys)

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