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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Trethewey's grandmother tell her she still felt pain sometimes after Gwendolyn was dead?
(a) Her wrist.
(b) Her ankle.
(c) Her forehead.
(d) Her own navel.

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

4. In what year was Trethewey born?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1954.

5. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) The Quakers.
(b) The Revers.
(c) The Mennonites.
(d) The Jehovah's Witnesses.

6. 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.

7. Where did Gwendolyn get a job in the early years she and Trethewey were in Atlanta?
(a) Underground Atlanta.
(b) South Atlanta.
(c) West Atlanta.
(d) The Tree House.

8. What moment from Part II did Trethewey recall at her mother's funeral?
(a) An angry memory of when Joel hit Trethewey.
(b) A happy memory of her mother dancing at a party.
(c) A suspicious moment when Trethewey thought Joel was stealing from her mother.
(d) A sad memory of her mother fighting with Joel.

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

10. What kind of jewelry does Trethewey wear in the picture of herself and her mother the year they left Mississippi?
(a) A heart locket.
(b) A necklace with her name spelled out.
(c) Gold earrings.
(d) A pearl ring.

11. What did Gwendolyn wear in her last formal photograph before she was killed?
(a) A wedding dress.
(b) A red A-line dress.
(c) A green bridesmaid's dress.
(d) A black sheath dress.

12. What word did Trethewey's father use to refer to her in one of his poems?
(a) Zebra.
(b) Octaroon.
(c) Crossbreed.
(d) Puzzle.

13. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?
(a) Her father died.
(b) Her mother left her.
(c) She was in a fire.
(d) The ground was shaking outside her grandmother's house.

14. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?
(a) The Fisher.
(b) The Sea.
(c) The Starlight.
(d) The Stallion.

15. What kind of plant did Trethewey take from Gwendolyn's apartment in Part I after she was killed?
(a) A hydrangea.
(b) A dieffenbachia.
(c) A bonsai.
(d) A basil plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unusual about the plant Trethewey took from her mother's apartment after her death?

2. In which organization was Trethewey's father once an officer?

3. What did Trethewey call the man Gwendolyn brought home for her to meet in Part II?

4. What was the name of the restaurant Gwendolyn worked at in Atlanta?

5. Where did Trethewey take long walks with her father?

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