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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 119 - 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn tell Joel when he protested to Trethewey wanted to join a club in school?
(a) Trethewey would do whatever she wanted.
(b) Trethewey would ask her father's permission before joining the club.
(c) Trethewey would not join the club.
(d) Trethewey would join the club if she could pay for the fees herself.

2. What does Trethewey still think may have changed the way things ended with Joel and her mother?
(a) If she had told her father about how Joel tormented her.
(b) If she had told her mother about the way Joel tormented her.
(c) If she had told her grandmother about Joel's abuse.
(d) If she had told her mother to get a divorce.

3. Why did Trethewey decide to go to a medium herself in Part IV?
(a) She wanted to hear about her own future.
(b) She wanted to prove that the medium was a fraud.
(c) She wanted to get some idea of what her mother experienced herself with a psychic, and she wanted to see if her mother would contact her.
(d) She went with a friend of hers for moral support.

4. What did Gwendolyn bring home as a reward for Trethewey's good grades in Part II?
(a) A doll.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) New clothes.
(d) A new book.

5. What did Trethewey fear would happen to Gwendolyn after she talked back to Joel on her behalf in Part III?
(a) Joel would leave Gwendolyn.
(b) Joel would call the police and tell lies about them.
(c) Joel would beat Trethewey.
(d) Joel would beat Gwendolyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Gwendolyn's divorce from Joel become final?

2. What happened the year that Trethewey moved to Atlanta with her mother?

3. What did Trethewey remember Gwendolyn wearing to work during her first years in Atlanta?

4. What is one of the few clues Trethewey had about Gwendolyn's last days?

5. Which president does Trethewey remember seeing on television in disgrace in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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