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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. What author does Mock quote in the beginning of Part One?

2. What job does Mock's father have in Chapter 1?

3. Who is Mock's father's girlfriend's son in Chapter 2?

4. From which author does Mock choose to begin her book with?

5. What kinds of health problems did Janine, Mock's father's girlfriend in Chapter 4, have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 4, what serious problem does Mock's father struggle with?

8. What are Mock's memories of her Grandma Pearl like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the most significant differences between the way Mock is treated at Moanalua high school and Farrington high school in Hawaii? Which school adopts a more compassionate, and, in Mock's view, effective approach to reaching out to transgender youth? 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 detailing some of the conflicting feelings Mock has, in hindsight, about the paid sex work she did while saving for her gender reassignment surgery.

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