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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Joel make Trethewey do before taking her on drives?
(a) Call her grandmother.
(b) Go the bathroom.
(c) Eat.
(d) Pack a suitcase.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What did Trethewey's new friend Wendy's father do for a living?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Pilot.
(c) Landscaper.
(d) Lawyer.

13. What song became Trethewey's anthem in Part III?
(a) I am Woman.
(b) The Impossible Dream.
(c) I Will Survive.
(d) Dream a Little Dream of Me.

14. Who was Trethewey's fifth-grade teacher?
(a) Mrs. Messick.
(b) Mrs. Smith.
(c) Mr. Ardmore.
(d) Mr. Helio.

15. 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 loved her father too much to consent to being adopted.
(c) Trethewey hated Joel, and would never consent to being adopted.
(d) Trethewey did not want to change her name.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn was wrong with Trethewey when she left for school in Part III?

3. What did Trethewey hallucinate home from school with a high fever one day?

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

5. Which president does Trethewey remember seeing on television in disgrace in Part III?

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