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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 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 she would have to move out of state.
(c) Either she would go back to him, or he would try to kidnap their son.
(d) Either she would go back to him, or he would move out of the country.

2. Who came to visit Trethewey and her family for Thanksgiving in Part III?
(a) Her half-sister.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her Aunt Sugar.
(d) Her father.

3. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn was wrong with Trethewey when she left for school in Part III?
(a) Her pants were too tight.
(b) Her hair did not look good.
(c) She had not eaten breakfast.
(d) She looked too tired.

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

5. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?
(a) The Eclectic City.
(b) The Melting Pot.
(c) The City Too Busy to Hate.
(d) The City That Welcomes Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word did Trethewey's father use to refer to her in one of his poems?

3. What song did Trethewey also associate with a video she saw in school warning against the dangers of drug addiction?

4. What organization helped Gwendolyn when she was trying to leave Joel?

5. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?

(see the answer key)

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