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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 university did Trethewey's father attend for graduate school?
(a) The Southern College of Atlanta.
(b) Tulane.
(c) Loyloa.
(d) New York University.

2. Which face is the laughing face in a Janus mask?
(a) Leah.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Thalia.
(d) Zeus.

3. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?
(a) Her mother left her.
(b) Her father died.
(c) She was in a fire.
(d) The ground was shaking outside her grandmother's house.

4. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?
(a) Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough.
(b) Gwendolyn Stanley Turnbough.
(c) Gwendolyn Lannie Turnbough.
(d) Gwendolyn Laura Turnbough.

5. What kind of car did Trethewey's father buy to drive the family on vacation in Part I?
(a) Land Rover.
(b) Mercedes Benz.
(c) Lincoln Continental.
(d) BMW.

Short Answer Questions

1. WHat was the one reminder of Gwendolyn's father in the house she grew up in?

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

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

4. What word did Trethewey's father use to refer to her in one of his poems?

5. What profession did Trethewey's father pursue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one thing Trethewey remembered her mother doing to their apartment in Atlanta to try to make her feel more at home?

2. What name did Trethewey's father bestow on her in his fiction writing and why is it significant?

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

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

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

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

7. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?

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

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

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

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