View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which great-aunt did Trethewey spend much time with as a child?
(a) Aunt Sugar.
(b) Aunt Simone.
(c) Aunt Rita.
(d) Aunt Spiker.

2. What popular television show had Trethewey watched all summer in 1973?
(a) The Brady Bunch.
(b) I Love Lucy.
(c) The Dick Van Dyke Show.
(d) I Dream of Genie.

3. 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) A bullet hole in the wall of her bedroom.
(d) Young children playing around the crime tape.

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

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

6. Which writer wrote, "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware?"
(a) Martin Buber.
(b) Emer Friednly.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Faulkner.

7. 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.

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

9. What game did Trethewey sometimes play with her friend Dede?
(a) Apples to Apples.
(b) Knock out.
(c) Fool's Gold.
(d) Bloody Mary.

10. What zodiac sign was Gwendolyn?
(a) Aquarius.
(b) Sagittarius.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Leo.

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

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

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

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

15. Which face is the laughing face in a Janus mask?
(a) Thalia.
(b) Leah.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is written on the back of a photograph of Trethewey from her family's vacation to Mexico?

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

4. How old was Gwendolyn when she was killed?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 462 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample