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

2. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?
(a) A double-negative which makes Gwendolyn look like there are two of her.
(b) A star fading in the night sky behind Gwendolyn.
(c) A streak of red at Gwendolyn's shoulder.
(d) A corner of light just behind Gwendolyn's head.

3. When was the last time Gwendolyn saw her own father?
(a) When she was 12.
(b) When she was 16.
(c) When she was 19.
(d) When she was 5.

4. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?
(a) The eightieth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
(b) The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The hundredth anniversary of Mississippi's Confederate Memorial Day.
(d) The Fifth anniversary of the March on Washington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first thing the medium did when Trethewey and her friend got there?

2. What did Joel do the year that he finished technical school?

3. What moment from Part II did Trethewey recall at her mother's funeral?

4. What name did Trethewey use with the medium?

5. What did Trethewey's mother do in the new apartment in Part II to make her feel more at home?

(see the answer key)

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