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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 Joel make Trethewey do before taking her on drives?
(a) Eat.
(b) Call her grandmother.
(c) Go the bathroom.
(d) Pack a suitcase.

2. What did Jody tell Trethewey MARTA stood for?
(a) Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
(b) Making Ants Run Through Airways.
(c) Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.
(d) Making Amends Regarding Tall Alleys.

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) Hold My Hand.
(b) Just My Imagination.
(c) Remember.
(d) Come Back to Me.

4. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?
(a) The Stallion.
(b) The Sea.
(c) The Starlight.
(d) The Fisher.

5. Who did the medium tell Trethewey was communicating with him from her family?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which aunt's and uncle's house was separated from Trethewey's by the highway?

2. What did Trethewey hallucinate home from school with a high fever one day?

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

4. Where did Trethewey often go on Saturday outings with her mother in Part II?

5. What did Trethewey hear her mother telling Joel about the idea of him adopting her?

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