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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 159 - 212).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Trethewey often do when Joel was around at home?
(a) Go to a friend's house.
(b) Retreat to her room.
(c) Go to the library.
(d) Go to the basement.

2. What was the first thing Trethewey noticed about the medium?
(a) He was very old.
(b) He was very young.
(c) He had a British accent.
(d) He moved with a limp.

3. What did Gwendolyn tell Trethewey to do the day they were going to move out and she left Joel?
(a) To meet her around the corner from the hotel.
(b) To skip school.
(c) To put everything she wanted to take at the front of her closet and stacked on her dresser.
(d) To meet her at the shelter later that day.

4. How old was Gwendolyn when she was killed?
(a) 46.
(b) 35.
(c) 50.
(d) 40.

5. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn during their last phone conversation about what her choices were with him?
(a) Either she needed to get back together with him, or he would kill her.
(b) Either she would go back to him, or he would try to kidnap their son.
(c) Either she would go back to him, or she would have to move out of state.
(d) Either she would go back to him, or he would move out of the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday song makes Trethewey feel both joy and grief that she associates with her mother?

2. Where did Trethewey, her father, and her grandmother meet her mother's body for the funeral?

3. What did Trethewey remember Gwendolyn wearing to work during her first years in Atlanta?

4. Which university did Trethewey's father attend for graduate school?

5. What kind of car did Trethewey's father buy to drive the family on vacation in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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