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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. When Queenie gets home from seeing Tom and passes out, whom does she call when she wakes up?
2. A painting of which religious figure always alerts Queenie to the fact that she has awakened at her grandparents' house?
3. During Queenie's first appointment with Janet, she identifies which theme permeating her life as of late?
4. Who confronts Queenie outside of her office building in Chapter 15 about her choice of footwear?
5. Which member of staff has left The Daily Read to work for another newspaper by the time Chapter 16 begins?
Short Essay Questions
1. What decision does Queenie make about her friendships in Chapter 22 and what action does she then take?
2. For what reason is Queenie suspended from her job in Chapter 21?
3. Describe Queenie's first session with Janet.
4. Who is Elspeth?
5. Queenie worries about which of her family members refusing to accept her choice to see a therapist?
6. How many resolutions does Queenie make in Chapter 15 and what is the last one on the list?
7. How does Queenie gain access to the offices of The Daily Read in Chapter 13?
8. How does Queenie find out that Cassandra has been seeing Guy?
9. To what location does Queenie travel in Chapter 19 in the pouring rain and what does she find out?
10. How does Queenie come to attend a number of sessions with Janet, despite her initial feelings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the central purpose of the work Queenie? What response do you think Carty-Williams wants from the text’s audience? How does each character support Carty-Williams’s purpose?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Carty-Williams's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Queenie.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Carty-Williams’s novel Queenie. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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