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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What imaginary name did Trethewey give to herself in Part III?
(a) Princess Ariel.
(b) Princess Leilani.
(c) Princess Moana.
(d) Princess Belle.

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

3. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn was wrong with Trethewey when she left for school in Part III?
(a) Her pants were too tight.
(b) She looked too tired.
(c) She had not eaten breakfast.
(d) Her hair did not look good.

4. Why did Trethewey stop doing her hair in Part III?
(a) Gwendolyn would not pay for Trethewey to get her hair cut at a salon.
(b) Joel would not give her money for hair products.
(c) Joel told her he would cut if off if it looked like it did.
(d) Joel used her hairbrush and left grease and dandruff in it.

5. What dream did Trethewey have recurring by the time she was in fourth grade?
(a) Someone was in her room, but she could not move or speak.
(b) Her mother died.
(c) She was told to go live with her father.
(d) She was buried alive.

6. 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 not have wanted to make contact with her father.
(c) He might have expected her to tip him.
(d) He might have been trying to contact her grandmother.

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

8. What did Trethewey avoid when she moved back to Atlanta as an adult more than a decade after her mother's death?
(a) The zoo.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) The park.
(d) The Interstate 285.

9. 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 set of architectural plans she had made for a house she wanted to build herself.
(d) A box of uncashed checks from her mother's job.

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

11. 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.

12. Where did Joel show up to see Trethewey shortly after Gwendolyn left him?
(a) A football game where Trethewey was cheerleading.
(b) At Trethewey's after-school job.
(c) At the women's shelter.
(d) At the library.

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

14. What name did Trethewey use with the medium?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Lorna.
(c) Sally.
(d) Betty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jody tell Trethewey MARTA stood for?

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

3. Why was Joel tried and convicted in 1983?

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

5. What is one of the few clues Trethewey had about Gwendolyn's last days?

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