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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 41 - 82).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Joel tell Trethewey was the reason his feet were deformed?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) A birth defect.
(c) An injury from his father.
(d) An accident in school.

2. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?
(a) A hole in the center of her forehead.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Blood.

3. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?
(a) A streak of red at Gwendolyn's shoulder.
(b) A star fading in the night sky behind Gwendolyn.
(c) A double-negative which makes Gwendolyn look like there are two of her.
(d) A corner of light just behind Gwendolyn's head.

4. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?
(a) Her father died.
(b) She was in a fire.
(c) Her mother left her.
(d) The ground was shaking outside her grandmother's house.

5. When was the last time Gwendolyn saw her own father?
(a) When she was 16.
(b) When she was 5.
(c) When she was 19.
(d) When she was 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?

2. What did Trethewey's father always tell her she would become when she grew up?

3. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?

4. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?

5. What is written on the back of a photograph of Trethewey from her family's vacation to Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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