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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 159 - 212).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice did Trethewey's great aunt give her when she was still a child?
(a) To always have a job with which she could support herself.
(b) Never to let a man hit her.
(c) To always have a lipstick in her purse.
(d) Never to marry a man with less education that she had herself.

2. How did Trethewey's parents meet?
(a) They were both interning for the same congressman.
(b) On a protest together.
(c) In a college literature course.
(d) They were neighbors.

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

4. Why did Trethewey say so little to the medium as far as small talk?
(a) She was naturally very shy.
(b) She did not want her friend to think she really believed in the psychic.
(c) She thought if she did not say much she might not have to pay him for the session.
(d) She did not want to give away personal information about herself so he could use it to pretend someone was trying to contact her from the afterlife.

5. What did the District Attorney need as evidence to obtain a warrant for Joel's arrest?
(a) Evidence Joel had a gun.
(b) Written proof that Joel was threatening Gwendolyn.
(c) Photos of Joel threatening Gwendolyn.
(d) Tape recordings of Gwendolyn's calls with Joel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trethewey still think may have changed the way things ended with Joel and her mother?

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

3. What grade was Trethewey in the first time she heard her mother being beaten?

4. What did Trethewey remember Gwendolyn wearing to work during her first years in Atlanta?

5. What is the name of the school Trethewey attended in fifth grade?

(see the answer key)

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