View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in Part I in her dream?
(a) Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?
(b) What time is it?
(c) How are you doing?
(d) Can you forgive me?

2. Where did Trethewey's father complete his graduate studies?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) New York City.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Atlanta.

3. What years did Trethewey try to forget as much about as she could?
(a) The years between 1970 and 1980.
(b) The years between 1973 and 1985.
(c) The years between 1980 and 1989.
(d) The years between 1990 and 1998.

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

5. What happened to Trethewey when she first set out to start writing about her mother?
(a) She talked to her partner about her mother more.
(b) She had to take a leave of absence from work.
(c) She had to call her grandmother for comfort.
(d) She had more dreams about her mother in a few weeks than she had in decades.

6. Which great-grandmother does Trethewey write about in Part I?
(a) Eugenia McGee.
(b) Michelene Marine.
(c) Rona Doris.
(d) Ramona Newell.

7. Which famous monument was in sight of the apartment Gwendolyn lived in when she was killed?
(a) Robert E. Lee Museum.
(b) Confederacy Hill.
(c) Stone Mountain.
(d) Stonewall Jackson Memorial.

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

9. What advice did Trethewey's great aunt give her when she was still a child?
(a) To always have a job with which she could support herself.
(b) To always have a lipstick in her purse.
(c) Never to let a man hit her.
(d) Never to marry a man with less education that she had herself.

10. WHat did the Ku Klux Klan do to terrorize Trethewey's grandmother in the 1960s?
(a) Burned a cross in her driveway.
(b) Followed her in their trucks.
(c) Hung a noose in her tree.
(d) Shot at her house.

11. What was the name of Trethewey's grandfather, Gwendolyn's father, who Trethewey never met?
(a) Lenny.
(b) Robert.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Stennie.

12. WHat was the one reminder of Gwendolyn's father in the house she grew up in?
(a) A charcoal drawing of him.
(b) An oil painting of him.
(c) One of his hats which always hung on a peg.
(d) A photo of him.

13. Who did Gwendolyn visit a few weeks before she was killed?
(a) An old friend from high school.
(b) Her first husband.
(c) A priest.
(d) A psychic.

14. What name did Trethewey's father assign her in the short stories he wrote?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Ilias.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Athena.

15. What experience from Mexico did Trethewey always remember with some trepidation afterwards?
(a) Nearly being kidnapped.
(b) Almost drowning.
(c) Getting badly sunburned.
(d) A fire in their hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car did the man Gwendolyn introduced Trethewey to in Part II drive?

2. What did Trethewey remember about her trip to Atlanta with her mother?

3. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 584 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample