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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 83 - 114).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?
(a) Fire!
(b) No!
(c) I can save you!
(d) Help us!

2. What did Joel make Trethewey do before taking her on drives?
(a) Go the bathroom.
(b) Eat.
(c) Pack a suitcase.
(d) Call her grandmother.

3. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
(a) Stoker v. Georgia.
(b) Loving v. Virginia.
(c) Regis v. Florida.
(d) Scott v. North Carolina.

4. How did Trethewey push back against Joel's violation of her privacy?
(a) She told her mother.
(b) She began playing nasty tricks on him.
(c) She told social services.
(d) She wrote angry things in her diary about him.

5. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?
(a) The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The hundredth anniversary of Mississippi's Confederate Memorial Day.
(c) The eightieth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
(d) The Fifth anniversary of the March on Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experience from Mexico did Trethewey always remember with some trepidation afterwards?

2. What moment from Part II did Trethewey recall at her mother's funeral?

3. What did Trethewey hear her mother telling Joel about the idea of him adopting her?

4. Which aunt's and uncle's house was separated from Trethewey's by the highway?

5. What did Joel tell Trethewey was the reason his feet were deformed?

(see the answer key)

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