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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 1990 and 1998.
(d) The years between 1980 and 1989.

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

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

4. Where was Trethewey born?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

5. What is written on the back of a photograph of Trethewey from her family's vacation to Mexico?
(a) Tasha, Los Lobos, 1956.
(b) Tasha, Cancun, 1950.
(c) Tasha, Mexico City, 1965.
(d) Tasha, Monterrey, 1969.

6. What did Trethewey remember Gwendolyn wearing to work during her first years in Atlanta?
(a) A heavy brass bullet belt.
(b) A kimono.
(c) A colorful wrap around her hair.
(d) A short black cocktail dress.

7. What job did Gwendolyn hold at the time of her death?
(a) Personnel director for human resources at the county mental health agency.
(b) Court reporter.
(c) Legal clerk.
(d) Accountant.

8. Which university did Trethewey's father attend for graduate school?
(a) The Southern College of Atlanta.
(b) Loyloa.
(c) New York University.
(d) Tulane.

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

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

11. What was the name of the restaurant Gwendolyn worked at in Atlanta?
(a) The Mine Shaft.
(b) Punch.
(c) The Factory.
(d) The Red Room.

12. In what year was Trethewey's mother born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1960.

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

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

15. Which family that Trethewey and her family befriended reminded her of the Jackson Five?
(a) The Moores.
(b) The Dunns.
(c) The Lindels.
(d) The Swingles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?

2. What advice did Trethewey's great aunt give her when she was still a child?

3. Which writer wrote, "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware?"

4. What experience from Mexico did Trethewey always remember with some trepidation afterwards?

5. What profession did Trethewey's father pursue?

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