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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?
(a) Gwendolyn Lannie Turnbough.
(b) Gwendolyn Stanley Turnbough.
(c) Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough.
(d) Gwendolyn Laura Turnbough.

2. What happened to Trethewey when she first set out to start writing about her mother?
(a) She had more dreams about her mother in a few weeks than she had in decades.
(b) She had to take a leave of absence from work.
(c) She talked to her partner about her mother more.
(d) She had to call her grandmother for comfort.

3. What kind of plant did Trethewey take from Gwendolyn's apartment in Part I after she was killed?
(a) A bonsai.
(b) A hydrangea.
(c) A dieffenbachia.
(d) A basil plant.

4. What truth did the photograph of Trethewey with her family from 1974 make clear, according to her?
(a) She missed her grandfather terribly.
(b) She felt like an awkward child.
(c) She missed her father terribly.
(d) She had already started to separate herself from her mother's new life.

5. What zodiac sign was Gwendolyn?
(a) Leo.
(b) Aquarius.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Sagittarius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?

2. Which magazine published pictures of Emmett Till after his brutal death in 1955?

3. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?

4. What experience from Mexico did Trethewey always remember with some trepidation afterwards?

5. How did Trethewey and her mother often get around the city in New Orleans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What image did Trethewey keep in her head from the first day after her mother's death?

2. What did Trethewey remember most clearly about leaving Mississippi for Atlanta in 1972?

3. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in her dream in Part I?

4. What was unusual about the plant Trethewey saved after her mother's death?

5. How long after her mother's death did Trethewey go back to the site of her murder, and why?

6. Why did Trethewey's father want to take her and her mother to Mexico in the 1960s?

7. Why did it take longer than it might have for Trethewey to realize her father and mother had separated?

8. What nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?

9. What did Trethewey want more than anything after moving to Atlanta?

10. Why did Trethewey's father encourage her to become a writer?

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