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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Trethewey show her new friends that was a secret of Joel's in Part III?
(a) His flag from the army.
(b) His wood carvings.
(c) Pornographic magazines.
(d) His watch.

2. What name did Trethewey use with the medium?
(a) Betty.
(b) Sally.
(c) Lorna.
(d) Cassandra.

3. When did Trethewey's father die?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2009.

4. Why was Joel tried and convicted in 1983?
(a) He stole a car.
(b) He tried to kill Gwendolyn.
(c) He skipped bail.
(d) He robbed a bank.

5. What did Trethewey use to mark her path home from the creek and golf course?
(a) Stones.
(b) Birdseed.
(c) Breadcrumbs.
(d) Wood chips.

6. What occurred to Trethewey about the medium after she left her session?
(a) He might have expected her to tip him.
(b) He may have been mistaking May for June, significant because that was the month in which Gwendolyn died.
(c) He might have been trying to contact her grandmother.
(d) He might not have wanted to make contact with her father.

7. How did Trethewey push back against Joel's violation of her privacy?
(a) She began playing nasty tricks on him.
(b) She told her mother.
(c) She wrote angry things in her diary about him.
(d) She told social services.

8. Which president does Trethewey remember seeing on television in disgrace in Part III?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Bush.
(d) Clinton.

9. Why did Trethewey stop doing her hair in Part III?
(a) Gwendolyn would not pay for Trethewey to get her hair cut at a salon.
(b) Joel told her he would cut if off if it looked like it did.
(c) Joel used her hairbrush and left grease and dandruff in it.
(d) Joel would not give her money for hair products.

10. What dream did Trethewey have recurring by the time she was in fourth grade?
(a) Her mother died.
(b) She was buried alive.
(c) Someone was in her room, but she could not move or speak.
(d) She was told to go live with her father.

11. What did Joel do to violate Trethewey's privacy in Part III?
(a) Read her diary.
(b) Barged in on her in the shower.
(c) Came into her room without knocking.
(d) Listened in on her phone calls.

12. Which Union Army leader did Trethewey admire in grade school?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) William Tecumseh Sherman.
(d) Stonewall Jackson.

13. What did Joel tell his therapist years later about coming to see Tretheway in Part IV?
(a) He wanted to pass a message to her mother through her.
(b) He wanted to see her one last time before he killed himself.
(c) He wanted to kill her then, but she spoke kindly to him, so he did not.
(d) He did not remember going to see her that night.

14. Why did Trethewey decide to go to a medium herself in Part IV?
(a) She wanted to get some idea of what her mother experienced herself with a psychic, and she wanted to see if her mother would contact her.
(b) She wanted to hear about her own future.
(c) She wanted to prove that the medium was a fraud.
(d) She went with a friend of hers for moral support.

15. How long did Trethewey go to therapy with Joel before she realized she wanted to end the marriage?
(a) Eight months.
(b) One year.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase did Trethewey overhear in Part III that she did not understand the meaning of at first?

2. Where did Joel often take Trethewey on their drives?

3. What did some of the staff at the family shelter say to Gwendolyn when she first got there with her children?

4. What is the name of the school Trethewey attended in fifth grade?

5. Who did Trethewey confide in about her mother being abused by Joel in Part III?

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