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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 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) Half-breed.
(c) Nigger.
(d) Zebra.

2. What is written on the back of a photograph of Trethewey from her family's vacation to Mexico?
(a) Tasha, Mexico City, 1965.
(b) Tasha, Cancun, 1950.
(c) Tasha, Monterrey, 1969.
(d) Tasha, Los Lobos, 1956.

3. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?
(a) Fear.
(b) Blood.
(c) Anger.
(d) A hole in the center of her forehead.

4. Where did Trethewey and her mother move after her parents separated?
(a) Miami.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Atlanta.

5. What surprise did Gwendolyn have for Trethewey in 1973?
(a) A new house.
(b) A new baby brother.
(c) She was getting back together with Trethewey's father.
(d) She was moving back to Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?

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

5. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?

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