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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) New York University.
(b) Loyloa.
(c) The Southern College of Atlanta.
(d) Tulane.

2. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?
(a) Help us!
(b) No!
(c) I can save you!
(d) Fire!

3. Where did Gwendolyn get a job in the early years she and Trethewey were in Atlanta?
(a) Underground Atlanta.
(b) The Tree House.
(c) West Atlanta.
(d) South Atlanta.

4. Where was Trethewey born?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

5. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?
(a) The hundredth anniversary of Mississippi's Confederate Memorial Day.
(b) The Fifth anniversary of the March on Washington.
(c) The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
(d) The eightieth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn wear in her last formal photograph before she was killed?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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