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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. In what year was Trethewey born?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1982.

2. Why did Trethewey decide to go to a medium herself in Part IV?
(a) She wanted to hear about her own future.
(b) She went with a friend of hers for moral support.
(c) She wanted to prove that the medium was a fraud.
(d) She wanted to get some idea of what her mother experienced herself with a psychic, and she wanted to see if her mother would contact her.

3. What was one way Trethewey thought the medium might try to find information about her?
(a) Searching her name online.
(b) Reading her facial expressions.
(c) Calling her family and asking questions.
(d) Following her secretly.

4. What did Trethewey avoid when she moved back to Atlanta as an adult more than a decade after her mother's death?
(a) The park.
(b) The zoo.
(c) The Interstate 285.
(d) Ice cream.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?

2. What did Gwendolyn tell Joel he was mistaken about in the beginning of their phone call in Part V?

3. What does Trethewey believe one needs to do to be able to survive trauma?

4. What kind of car did Trethewey's father buy to drive the family on vacation in Part I?

5. What did Gwendolyn get for Trethewey that empowered her at the beginning in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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