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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. What state did Trethewey's parents get married in?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Georgia.

2. What truth did the photograph of Trethewey with her family from 1974 make clear, according to her?
(a) She had already started to separate herself from her mother's new life.
(b) She felt like an awkward child.
(c) She missed her grandfather terribly.
(d) She missed her father terribly.

3. What game did Trethewey sometimes play with her friend Dede?
(a) Apples to Apples.
(b) Bloody Mary.
(c) Fool's Gold.
(d) Knock out.

4. What protest did Trethewey's grandmother join in 1963?
(a) A protest led by Black citizens in Biloxi to highlight Black peoples' right to use public beaches.
(b) A bus boycott in Biloxi to protest for equal treatment for Blacks on public transportation.
(c) A supermarket protest in Biloxi to protest for equal treatment for Blacks in shops and restaurants.
(d) A protest led by Black citizens in Biloxi to push for equal voting rights.

5. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Savannah, Georgia.
(c) Gulfport, Mississippi.
(d) Biloxi. Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Gwendolyn hold at the time of her death?

2. What years did Trethewey try to forget as much about as she could?

3. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?

4. Which magazine published pictures of Emmett Till after his brutal death in 1955?

5. How long after Gwendolyn's death did Trethewey go back to the place she was murdered?

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