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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. How did Trethewey's parents meet?
(a) They were neighbors.
(b) They were both interning for the same congressman.
(c) In a college literature course.
(d) On a protest together.

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

3. What kind of disposition did Trethewey have as a child?
(a) Angry and brooding.
(b) Always joyful and joking.
(c) Superstitious and anxious.
(d) Calm and relaxed.

4. In what month did Gwendolyn's divorce from Joel become final?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) July.
(d) February.

5. Which Union Army leader did Trethewey admire in grade school?
(a) William Tecumseh Sherman.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) Stonewall Jackson.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following images did Trethewey remember seeing the morning after her mother's death?

2. Where did Trethewey and her mother move after her parents separated?

3. Where did Trethewey take long walks with her father?

4. How does hindsight make Trethewey see her mother's last portrait?

5. What zodiac sign was Gwendolyn?

(see the answer key)

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