View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn write about Joel's feelings towards Trethewey?
(a) He always ignored her.
(b) He wanted her to move out.
(c) He wanted to adopt her and always loved her.
(d) He was jealous of her.

2. What did Joel want to do in Part III that Trethewey was dead set against?
(a) Have another child with her mother.
(b) Adopt her.
(c) Divorce her mother.
(d) Move.

3. What was the first thing the medium did when Trethewey and her friend got there?
(a) Ask for them to come out on the balcony.
(b) Ask for them to pay him.
(c) Offer to make them tea.
(d) Offer to get them an alcoholic drink.

4. What song did Trethewey also associate with a video she saw in school warning against the dangers of drug addiction?
(a) Wistful.
(b) Lean on Me.
(c) Blue Moon.
(d) Stand by Me.

5. What was Joel's pet phrase to Gwendolyn?
(a) I can't trust you.
(b) You are worthless.
(c) You don't wear the pants.
(d) I am the breadwinner.

6. What did Joel do the year that he finished technical school?
(a) Got arrested for drug possession.
(b) Divorced Gwendolyn.
(c) Moved to Mississippi.
(d) Started his own HVAC business.

7. Which individual helped Gwendolyn at the Council for Battered Women?
(a) Marley Hartford.
(b) Rena Bishop.
(c) Jennifer Jason.
(d) Hattie Bedford.

8. What is one of the few clues Trethewey had about Gwendolyn's last days?
(a) She visited a psychic some weeks before her death.
(b) She called Trethewey's grandmother right before she died.
(c) She visited her best friend the day before her death.
(d) She called Trethewey's half-brother before she died.

9. What did Trethewey hear her mother telling Joel about the idea of him adopting her?
(a) Trethewey wanted to run away from home.
(b) Trethewey hated Joel, and would never consent to being adopted.
(c) Trethewey did not want to change her name.
(d) Trethewey loved her father too much to consent to being adopted.

10. In what month did Gwendolyn's divorce from Joel become final?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) December.
(d) February.

11. Which months did the medium say he thought were significant to Trethewey at the beginning of the session?
(a) April and June.
(b) March and April.
(c) August and September.
(d) January and August.

12. Which famous mystery books did Trethewey like in Part III?
(a) Midsummer Murders.
(b) Encyclopedia Brown.
(c) The Hardy Boys.
(d) Nancy Drew.

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

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

15. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn he would do if she left him?
(a) Take all her money.
(b) Move out of state.
(c) Kill her and the kids.
(d) Make sure people knew how bad she was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joel do to violate Trethewey's privacy in Part III?

2. When was Joel's first attempt to kill Gwendolyn?

3. Who did the medium tell Trethewey was communicating with him from her family?

4. What play did Trethewey act the lead in in grade school?

5. What occurred to Trethewey about the medium after she left her session?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 606 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample