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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 is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?
(a) A star fading in the night sky behind Gwendolyn.
(b) A corner of light just behind Gwendolyn's head.
(c) A double-negative which makes Gwendolyn look like there are two of her.
(d) A streak of red at Gwendolyn's shoulder.

2. Which of the following images did Trethewey remember seeing the morning after her mother's death?
(a) Young children playing around the crime tape.
(b) A bullet hole in the wall of her bedroom.
(c) Blood on the stairwell.
(d) The photographers pushing open the door to the apartment building.

3. What was the name of the street Gwendolyn lived on when she was killed?
(a) Memorial Drive.
(b) Lakelane Drive.
(c) Stone Cold Drive.
(d) Wysteria Drive.

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

5. Which writer wrote, "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware?"
(a) Martin Buber.
(b) Emer Friednly.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?

2. What did Gwendolyn do to celebrate the completion of her graduate degree?

3. What state did Trethewey's parents get married in?

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

5. What happened to Trethewey when she first set out to start writing about her mother?

(see the answer key)

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