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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 119 - 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn tell Joel when he protested to Trethewey wanted to join a club in school?
(a) Trethewey would join the club if she could pay for the fees herself.
(b) Trethewey would ask her father's permission before joining the club.
(c) Trethewey would not join the club.
(d) Trethewey would do whatever she wanted.

2. Which Union Army leader did Trethewey admire in grade school?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) William Tecumseh Sherman.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) Stonewall Jackson.

3. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?
(a) Help us!
(b) No!
(c) I can save you!
(d) Fire!

4. What did Trethewey remember about her trip to Atlanta with her mother?
(a) The hotels they stayed at.
(b) The car had engine trouble.
(c) The food they ate.
(d) The terrible traffic.

5. What word did Trethewey's father use to refer to her in one of his poems?
(a) Crossbreed.
(b) Octaroon.
(c) Puzzle.
(d) Zebra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the few clues Trethewey had about Gwendolyn's last days?

2. What is written on the back of a photograph of Trethewey from her family's vacation to Mexico?

3. Who did Gwendolyn visit a few weeks before she was killed?

4. What grade was Trethewey in the first time she heard her mother being beaten?

5. What happened shortly after Trethewey told Gwendolyn about how Joel tormented her?

(see the answer key)

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