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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Trethewey use to mark her path home from the creek and golf course?
(a) Birdseed.
(b) Wood chips.
(c) Breadcrumbs.
(d) Stones.

2. 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 father about how Joel tormented her.
(d) If she had told her mother to get a divorce.

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

4. What was Trethewey's favorite afternoon snack when she was a senior in high school?
(a) Cheese and bread.
(b) Cake.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Cereal.

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

6. What was one way Trethewey thought the medium might try to find information about her?
(a) Reading her facial expressions.
(b) Searching her name online.
(c) Following her secretly.
(d) Calling her family and asking questions.

7. What did Trethewey fear would happen to Gwendolyn after she talked back to Joel on her behalf in Part III?
(a) Joel would leave Gwendolyn.
(b) Joel would call the police and tell lies about them.
(c) Joel would beat Gwendolyn.
(d) Joel would beat Trethewey.

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

9. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1983.

10. Why did Trethewey say so little to the medium as far as small talk?
(a) She was naturally very shy.
(b) She thought if she did not say much she might not have to pay him for the session.
(c) She did not want her friend to think she really believed in the psychic.
(d) She did not want to give away personal information about herself so he could use it to pretend someone was trying to contact her from the afterlife.

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

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

13. Why did Trethewey decide to go to a medium herself in Part IV?
(a) She wanted to get some idea of what her mother experienced herself with a psychic, and she wanted to see if her mother would contact her.
(b) She wanted to prove that the medium was a fraud.
(c) She went with a friend of hers for moral support.
(d) She wanted to hear about her own future.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trethewey avoid when she moved back to Atlanta as an adult more than a decade after her mother's death?

2. What was Joel's pet phrase to Gwendolyn?

3. What did Gwendolyn get for Trethewey that empowered her at the beginning in Part III?

4. What is the name of the school Trethewey attended in fifth grade?

5. What did Jody tell Trethewey MARTA stood for?

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