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

2. How old was Gwendolyn when she was killed?
(a) 40.
(b) 50.
(c) 46.
(d) 35.

3. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
(a) Loving v. Virginia.
(b) Scott v. North Carolina.
(c) Stoker v. Georgia.
(d) Regis v. Florida.

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

5. What kind of car did Trethewey's father buy to drive the family on vacation in Part I?
(a) Land Rover.
(b) Mercedes Benz.
(c) BMW.
(d) Lincoln Continental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?

2. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?

3. In which organization was Trethewey's father once an officer?

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

5. What was the name of Trethewey's grandfather, Gwendolyn's father, who Trethewey never met?

(see the answer key)

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