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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 does Chad do to Mock in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Humiliates her in front of her friends.
(b) Beats her up.
(c) Sexually abuses her.
(d) Takes her to the movies.

2. What place in her grandmother's house is a sanctuary for Mock when she is young?
(a) Her bedroom.
(b) The basement.
(c) The lanai.
(d) The kitchen.

3. What does Mock's father do to her in Chapter 6 that devastates her and alters her appearance significantly?
(a) Forces her to lose weight.
(b) Forbids her from plucking her eyebrows.
(c) Cuts her hair very short.
(d) Throws out all her makeup.

4. How does Mock recall feeling as she assembled her furniture in New York City as a graduate student?
(a) Angry.
(b) Very lonely.
(c) Self-confident.
(d) Happy.

5. What is the last thing Mock remembers about the yellow house on the hill in Chapter 5?
(a) The red door.
(b) The heavy drapes.
(c) Janine waving good-bye.
(d) The streetlamps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which cousin of Mock's does she spend a lot of time with in Chapter 6?

2. From what book does Mock select a quote to begin Redefining Realness?

3. What was Mock's first example of so-called normal parent-child relationships?

4. What is the name of the man Mock goes on a series of dates with in the section New York 2009?

5. How do Mock and Chad attempt to assimilate more quickly back into Hawaiian culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the introduction, why does Mock say she wrote this book?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Mock's father force her to do to prove that she has masculine traits?

3. What does Mock believe, as an adult, are some of the consequences of Derek's sexual abuse of her?

4. How does Mock feel in Chapter 6 when she finds out she will be moving back to Hawaii to live with her mother?

5. Why does Mock admire Auntie Wee Wee in Chapter 6?

6. In the section titled New York 2009, why does Mock decide not to tell Aaron that she is a transgender woman on their first date?

7. Where do Mock's parents send her in 1989 and why do they do this?

8. In Chapter 5, why does Mock pretend she is a girl named Keisha on the phone to her cousin's friend Alan?

9. When does it finally hit Mock as a child that her father is addicted to drugs?

10. In Chapter 4, what does Mock still think of as one of the top five moments in her life?

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