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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. Where did Trethewey often go on Saturday outings with her mother in Part II?
(a) The library.
(b) The clothing stores.
(c) The ice cream shop.
(d) The fire house.

2. Where did Trethewey go on vacation with her parents in Part I?
(a) Mexico.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) Great Britain.

3. What popular television show had Trethewey watched all summer in 1973?
(a) The Dick Van Dyke Show.
(b) I Dream of Genie.
(c) The Brady Bunch.
(d) I Love Lucy.

4. 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.

5. WHat was the one reminder of Gwendolyn's father in the house she grew up in?
(a) One of his hats which always hung on a peg.
(b) A photo of him.
(c) An oil painting of him.
(d) A charcoal drawing of him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which great-grandmother does Trethewey write about in Part I?

4. What advice did Trethewey's great aunt give her when she was still a child?

5. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?

(see the answer key)

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