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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the school Trethewey attended in fifth grade?
(a) Wilson Elementary.
(b) Clifton Elementary.
(c) Rose Elementary.
(d) Robert E. Lee Elementary.

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

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

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

7. Where did Trethewey go on a school trip when she was 12?
(a) Washington.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

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

9. What did Joel do to torment Gwendolyn on a regular basis?
(a) Woke her up in the middle of the night for "discussions."
(b) Called her mother to threaten her.
(c) Told her he would kick Trethewey out of the house.
(d) Called her friends to say embarrassing things.

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

11. What did some of the staff at the family shelter say to Gwendolyn when she first got there with her children?
(a) She made more money than they did.
(b) She looked to young to be there.
(c) She looked like she needed to eat.
(d) She would need to move out as soon as possible.

12. Who came to visit Trethewey and her family for Thanksgiving in Part III?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her half-sister.
(d) Her Aunt Sugar.

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

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

15. What holiday song makes Trethewey feel both joy and grief that she associates with her mother?
(a) White Christmas.
(b) This Christmas.
(c) Feliz Navidad.
(d) All I Want for Christmas is You.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trethewey often do when Joel was around at home?

2. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?

3. What was the first thing Trethewey noticed about the medium?

4. What grade was Trethewey in the first time she heard her mother being beaten?

5. Who was Trethewey's fifth-grade teacher?

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