Redefining Realness Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Mock, Janet
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Redefining Realness Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Mock, Janet
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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. Which of the following terms does Mock prefer in describing herself?

2. Who is the neighbor who labels Mock's father a drug addict?

3. Mock opens Part Two of the book with a quote from which author?

4. What does Mock's father ask her in desperation in Chapter 6?

5. What does Jamie compliment Mock on in the beginning of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 7, what are Mock's memories of her sister Cori when she moves back to Hawaii as a young person?

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 Chapter 5, how does Mock's father Charlie describe himself to her?

7. What is Mock most afraid of, and how does she answer Aaron's question about her fears?

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

9. In Chapter 2, how does Derek's sexual abuse of Mock begin?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does meeting Wendi when Mock and Wendi are young teenagers change the course of Mock's life? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does Mock feel about the fact that her physical beauty has afforded her advantages as a transgender woman that she knows many other people in similar situations to hers do not have? How does she feel when people tell her she is lucky that most people would never be able to tell the gender she was assigned at birth was male? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining some of the significant differences Janet points out between how our culture views femininity and masculinity. What do you think she means when she writes "femininity in general is seen as frivolous?" (147).

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