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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Joel often take Trethewey on their drives?
(a) To the park.
(b) For ice cream.
(c) Interstate 285.
(d) To the movies.

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

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

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

5. What did Gwendolyn tell Trethewey to do the day they were going to move out and she left Joel?
(a) To put everything she wanted to take at the front of her closet and stacked on her dresser.
(b) To skip school.
(c) To meet her at the shelter later that day.
(d) To meet her around the corner from the hotel.

6. Who did the medium tell Trethewey was communicating with him from her family?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

7. What did Gwendolyn write in her own notes about the reasons she married Joel in the first place?
(a) She was feeling vulnerable.
(b) Financial difficulties.
(c) A combination of emotional blackmail, physical threats, and intimidation.
(d) She was young and thought she could change Joel.

8. What does Trethewey still think may have changed the way things ended with Joel and her mother?
(a) If she had told her mother about the way Joel tormented her.
(b) If she had told her mother to get a divorce.
(c) If she had told her father about how Joel tormented her.
(d) If she had told her grandmother about Joel's abuse.

9. 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) Offer to get them an alcoholic drink.
(c) Offer to make them tea.
(d) Ask for them to pay him.

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

11. Who did Trethewey confide in about her mother being abused by Joel in Part III?
(a) Mr. Biggs.
(b) Ms. Hiway.
(c) Mrs. Messick.
(d) Mr. Roger.

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

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

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

15. What did Gwendolyn tell Joel when he protested to Trethewey wanted to join a club in school?
(a) Trethewey would not join the club.
(b) Trethewey would do whatever she wanted.
(c) Trethewey would ask her father's permission before joining the club.
(d) Trethewey would join the club if she could pay for the fees herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trethewey's new friend Wendy's father do for a living?

2. What are the two things Trethewey knew about Abraham Lincoln in elementary school?

3. What holiday song makes Trethewey feel both joy and grief that she associates with her mother?

4. What did Trethewey use to mark her path home from the creek and golf course?

5. What was Trethewey's favorite afternoon snack when she was a senior in high school?

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