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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which great-grandmother does Trethewey write about in Part I?
(a) Rona Doris.
(b) Ramona Newell.
(c) Eugenia McGee.
(d) Michelene Marine.

3. Who did Gwendolyn visit a few weeks before she was killed?
(a) A priest.
(b) Her first husband.
(c) An old friend from high school.
(d) A psychic.

4. WHat was the one reminder of Gwendolyn's father in the house she grew up in?
(a) One of his hats which always hung on a peg.
(b) A photo of him.
(c) A charcoal drawing of him.
(d) An oil painting of him.

5. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?
(a) The Stallion.
(b) The Fisher.
(c) The Starlight.
(d) The Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Trethewey walking with her mother in her dream in Part I?

2. Which university did Trethewey's father attend for graduate school?

3. Which famous monument was in sight of the apartment Gwendolyn lived in when she was killed?

4. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?

5. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Trethewey want more than anything after moving to Atlanta?

3. What occasion did Trethewey's birth also mark in 1966?

4. When and where did Trethewey first encounter racism from other children?

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

6. Why did Trethewey's parents travel to Ohio to elope in 1965?

7. Why did Trethewey's father want to take her and her mother to Mexico in the 1960s?

8. What was unusual about the plant Trethewey saved after her mother's death?

9. Why did the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross in the driveway of Trethewey's grandmother's house in the 1960s?

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

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