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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 zodiac sign was Gwendolyn?
(a) Gemini.
(b) Aquarius.
(c) Leo.
(d) Sagittarius.

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

3. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?
(a) The Eclectic City.
(b) The City That Welcomes Everyone.
(c) The Melting Pot.
(d) The City Too Busy to Hate.

4. What song did Trethewey remember was playing when she left Mississippi with her mother, even though it probably was not the song that she heard?
(a) Hold My Hand.
(b) Remember.
(c) Just My Imagination.
(d) Come Back to Me.

5. 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) An oil painting of him.
(c) A photo of him.
(d) A charcoal drawing of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man Gwendolyn brought home to meet Trethewey in Part II?

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

3. What kind of disposition did Trethewey have as a child?

4. WHat did the Ku Klux Klan do to terrorize Trethewey's grandmother in the 1960s?

5. What kind of plant did Trethewey take from Gwendolyn's apartment in Part I after she was killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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