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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 41 - 82).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
(a) Scott v. North Carolina.
(b) Regis v. Florida.
(c) Stoker v. Georgia.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

3. Which famous monument was in sight of the apartment Gwendolyn lived in when she was killed?
(a) Stone Mountain.
(b) Confederacy Hill.
(c) Robert E. Lee Museum.
(d) Stonewall Jackson Memorial.

4. What did some children call Trethewey during a visit to New Orleans that was her first real experience of racism from other children?
(a) Mulatto.
(b) Zebra.
(c) Half-breed.
(d) Nigger.

5. 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?
(a) Just My Imagination.
(b) Hold My Hand.
(c) Come Back to Me.
(d) Remember.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in Part I in her dream?

2. In which organization was Trethewey's father once an officer?

3. What did Trethewey's father always tell her she would become when she grew up?

4. In what year was Trethewey born?

5. Where did Trethewey and her mother move after her parents separated?

(see the answer key)

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