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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What friend did Trethewey visit the medium with?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Bernice.
(d) Lindel.

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

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

6. What was Gwendolyn's job title in Part III?
(a) Manager, Macy's.
(b) Personnel Director, Rapid Transit Authority.
(c) Personnel Director, Georgia Retardation Center.
(d) Manager, Atlanta Public Library.

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

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

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

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

11. What organization helped Gwendolyn when she was trying to leave Joel?
(a) The Women Helping Women Center.
(b) The Council for Battered Women.
(c) The Black Women's Initiative.
(d) The Women's Resource Center.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trethewey hear her mother telling Joel about the idea of him adopting her?

2. What name did Trethewey use with the medium?

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

4. What was the first thing the medium did when Trethewey and her friend got there?

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

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