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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 83 - 114).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song did Trethewey also associate with a video she saw in school warning against the dangers of drug addiction?
(a) Stand by Me.
(b) Lean on Me.
(c) Wistful.
(d) Blue Moon.

2. What did Joel want to do in Part III that Trethewey was dead set against?
(a) Move.
(b) Divorce her mother.
(c) Have another child with her mother.
(d) Adopt her.

3. Which magazine published pictures of Emmett Till after his brutal death in 1955?
(a) Black Quarterly.
(b) Jet.
(c) Ebony.
(d) Fusion.

4. How did Trethewey push back against Joel's violation of her privacy?
(a) She told her mother.
(b) She wrote angry things in her diary about him.
(c) She began playing nasty tricks on him.
(d) She told social services.

5. What did Trethewey show her new friends that was a secret of Joel's in Part III?
(a) Pornographic magazines.
(b) His watch.
(c) His wood carvings.
(d) His flag from the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Trethewey often go on Saturday outings with her mother in Part II?

2. What protest did Trethewey's grandmother join in 1963?

3. When was the last time Gwendolyn saw her own father?

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

5. What imaginary name did Trethewey give to herself in Part III?

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