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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Joel show up to see Trethewey shortly after Gwendolyn left him?
(a) A football game where Trethewey was cheerleading.
(b) At the women's shelter.
(c) At the library.
(d) At Trethewey's after-school job.

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

6. What happened the year that Trethewey moved to Atlanta with her mother?
(a) Her grandmother died.
(b) Her grandfather died.
(c) Aunt Sugar died.
(d) The Confederate monument on Stone Mountain was completed.

7. What letters did the medium write on his notepad in front of Trethewey?
(a) NA.
(b) WF.
(c) BF.
(d) BA.

8. What did Gwendolyn get for Trethewey that empowered her at the beginning in Part III?
(a) A diary.
(b) A library card.
(c) A guitar.
(d) A record player.

9. What was the first thing Trethewey noticed about the medium?
(a) He was very young.
(b) He moved with a limp.
(c) He was very old.
(d) He had a British accent.

10. What phrase did Trethewey overhear in Part III that she did not understand the meaning of at first?
(a) Racism.
(b) White flight.
(c) Mortgage.
(d) Subdivison.

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

12. What play did Trethewey act the lead in in grade school?
(a) The Reluctant Dragon.
(b) The Smart Hipster.
(c) The Three Witches.
(d) The Santa Mouse.

13. Who was Trethewey's friend Jody's sister?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Claire.
(d) Lisa.

14. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1980.

15. What did Trethewey find five years after her mother's death?
(a) A box of uncashed checks from her mother's job.
(b) A cassette tape of her voice.
(c) A set of architectural plans she had made for a house she wanted to build herself.
(d) A box of pictures of her with Trethewey's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Joel's pet phrase to Gwendolyn?

2. What did Jody tell Trethewey MARTA stood for?

3. What does Trethewey still think may have changed the way things ended with Joel and her mother?

4. When did Trethewey's father die?

5. Which of the following was one of Trethewey's biggest fears?

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