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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. How did Trethewey push back against Joel's violation of her privacy?
(a) She wrote angry things in her diary about him.
(b) She began playing nasty tricks on him.
(c) She told her mother.
(d) She told social services.

2. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?
(a) Gwendolyn Stanley Turnbough.
(b) Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough.
(c) Gwendolyn Lannie Turnbough.
(d) Gwendolyn Laura Turnbough.

3. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Gulfport, Mississippi.
(c) Savannah, Georgia.
(d) Biloxi. Mississippi.

4. What did some children call Trethewey during a visit to New Orleans that was her first real experience of racism from other children?
(a) Nigger.
(b) Half-breed.
(c) Mulatto.
(d) Zebra.

5. What name did Trethewey use with the medium?
(a) Sally.
(b) Lorna.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Betty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?

3. Which president does Trethewey remember seeing on television in disgrace in Part III?

4. Where did Trethewey's mother take her at Grant Park as a special treat one weekend?

5. What advice did Trethewey's great aunt give her when she was still a child?

(see the answer key)

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