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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. Which of the following images did Trethewey remember seeing the morning after her mother's death?
(a) A bullet hole in the wall of her bedroom.
(b) Blood on the stairwell.
(c) The photographers pushing open the door to the apartment building.
(d) Young children playing around the crime tape.

2. Where did Trethewey's grandmother tell her she still felt pain sometimes after Gwendolyn was dead?
(a) Her own navel.
(b) Her wrist.
(c) Her forehead.
(d) Her ankle.

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

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

5. Where did Trethewey's mother take her at Grant Park as a special treat one weekend?
(a) The carousel.
(b) The amusement park.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unusual about the plant Trethewey took from her mother's apartment after her death?

2. What job did Gwendolyn hold at the time of her death?

3. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?

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

5. What did Atlanta gain a reputation for during the civil rights era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pain did Trethewey's grandmother describe long after Gwendolyn had died?

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

3. What did Trethewey remember most clearly about leaving Mississippi for Atlanta in 1972?

4. What does the photograph from May 1974 make plain to Trethewey when she looks at it now?

5. What did Trethewey begin to notice when she was out as a child with each of her parents?

6. Why did Trethewey's father encourage her to become a writer?

7. What did Trethewey remember fearing about her drives around Atlanta with Joel?

8. Why did Gwendolyn not see her father after about age 16?

9. What image did Trethewey keep in her head from the first day after her mother's death?

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

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