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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 83 - 114).

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

2. What did Joel want to do in Part III that Trethewey was dead set against?
(a) Move.
(b) Adopt her.
(c) Divorce her mother.
(d) Have another child with her mother.

3. What song did Trethewey remember was playing when she left Mississippi with her mother, even though it probably was not the song that she heard?
(a) Come Back to Me.
(b) Hold My Hand.
(c) Remember.
(d) Just My Imagination.

4. Which great-aunt did Trethewey spend much time with as a child?
(a) Aunt Spiker.
(b) Aunt Rita.
(c) Aunt Sugar.
(d) Aunt Simone.

5. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(b) The Quakers.
(c) The Mennonites.
(d) The Revers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Trethewey's friend Jody's sister?

3. What game did Trethewey sometimes play with her friend Dede?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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