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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 does Mock get in trouble with her school principal for in Chapter 11?

2. What poet does Mock admire and quote in Chapter 12?

3. Where does Mock live with her mother and siblings briefly in Chapter 12?

4. Which uncle of Mock's played football at Farrington High School?

5. How does Mock refer to the surgeon who she wants to perform her GRS surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does taking Premarin change Mock's body in Chapter 10?

2. What does Mock say in her letter to her father in Chapter 13?

3. Why does Mock and her family move to a motel for a time in Chapter 12?

4. Why is Mock impressed with Wendi?

5. How does Mock's father reply to her letter in Chapter 13?

6. What medical intervention does Wendi introduce Mock to in Chapter 8?

7. What happens to Mock's family life when her mother's old flame, Rick, moves in with the family in Chapter 9?

8. How does Mock eventually start her own course of hormone therapy in Chapter 10?

9. In Chapter 9, what do Mock and Wendi do that boosts Mock's confidence in her own body?

10. What are Wendi's first words to Mock in Chapter 8 and what do they signify?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Mock mean when she refers to an "underground railroad" of resources that she benefited from during her adolescent years of uncertainty? (135). Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does Mock's affinity for pop culture in the form of music, movies, television, and magazines inform her sense of what girls and women are supposed to look and behave like? Why do you think Janet loves these aspects of pop culture so much? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

How do both of Mock's parents' drug addictions affect her opinion of them and of what she is required to do to take care of herself? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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