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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 Gwendolyn do to celebrate the completion of her graduate degree?
(a) Cook lobsters.
(b) Buy a new wardrobe.
(c) Buy a new couch.
(d) Open and drink champagne.

2. Which magazine published pictures of Emmett Till after his brutal death in 1955?
(a) Jet.
(b) Ebony.
(c) Black Quarterly.
(d) Fusion.

3. Which university did Trethewey's father attend for graduate school?
(a) The Southern College of Atlanta.
(b) Loyloa.
(c) Tulane.
(d) New York University.

4. What did Joel tell Trethewey was the reason his feet were deformed?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) A birth defect.
(c) An injury from his father.
(d) An accident in school.

5. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?
(a) The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The eightieth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
(c) The Fifth anniversary of the March on Washington.
(d) The hundredth anniversary of Mississippi's Confederate Memorial Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?

2. Which family that Trethewey and her family befriended reminded her of the Jackson Five?

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

4. Where did Trethewey's grandmother tell her she still felt pain sometimes after Gwendolyn was dead?

5. What kind of car did Trethewey's father buy to drive the family on vacation in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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