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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 did Joel do the year that he finished technical school?
(a) Started his own HVAC business.
(b) Divorced Gwendolyn.
(c) Got arrested for drug possession.
(d) Moved to Mississippi.

2. What word did Trethewey's father use to refer to her in one of his poems?
(a) Puzzle.
(b) Octaroon.
(c) Crossbreed.
(d) Zebra.

3. What did Joel make Trethewey do before taking her on drives?
(a) Eat.
(b) Go the bathroom.
(c) Pack a suitcase.
(d) Call her grandmother.

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

5. Which Union Army leader did Trethewey admire in grade school?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) William Tecumseh Sherman.
(c) Stonewall Jackson.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?

2. What did Trethewey remember about her trip to Atlanta with her mother?

3. Where did Trethewey take long walks with her father?

4. How did Trethewey and her mother often get around the city in New Orleans?

5. Which famous mystery books did Trethewey like in Part III?

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