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1. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in her dream in Part I?

In Trethewey's dream about her mother in Part I, her mother asked her if she knew what it meant to have a wound that never heals.

2. What was Trethewey's last image of her mother while her mother was living?

Trethewey's last image of her mother while her mother was living was a formal photographic portrait she had taken a few months before her death.

3. How long after her mother's death did Trethewey go back to the site of her murder, and why?

Nearly 30 years after her mother's death, Trethewey went back to the site of her murder to try to face the feelings and emotional turmoil she felt about her mother's killing.

4. What monument was very close to the apartment where Trethewey's mother was killed?

The Stone Mountain park, the nation's largest monument to the Confederacy, was very close to the apartment where Trethewey's mother was killed.

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