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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 did Trethewey's father always tell her she would become when she grew up?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A writer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) An astronaut.

2. Where did Trethewey take long walks with her father?
(a) The dog park.
(b) The river.
(c) The railroad tracks.
(d) The beach.

3. WHat was the one reminder of Gwendolyn's father in the house she grew up in?
(a) One of his hats which always hung on a peg.
(b) A photo of him.
(c) A charcoal drawing of him.
(d) An oil painting of him.

4. Which aunt's and uncle's house was separated from Trethewey's by the highway?
(a) Hattie and Ron.
(b) Lorna and Barry.
(c) Sally and Bub.
(d) Lizzie and Son.

5. Where did Gwendolyn get a job in the early years she and Trethewey were in Atlanta?
(a) West Atlanta.
(b) Underground Atlanta.
(c) South Atlanta.
(d) The Tree House.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Trethewey's father pursue?

2. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?

3. How long after Gwendolyn's death did Trethewey go back to the place she was murdered?

4. Where was Trethewey walking with her mother in her dream in Part I?

5. What kind of disposition did Trethewey have as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the photograph from May 1974 make plain to Trethewey when she looks at it now?

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

4. When and where did Trethewey first encounter racism from other children?

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

6. Why did Trethewey's parents travel to Ohio to elope in 1965?

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

8. Why did Gwendolyn not see her father after about age 16?

9. Why did the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross in the driveway of Trethewey's grandmother's house in the 1960s?

10. What is one thing Trethewey remembered her mother doing to their apartment in Atlanta to try to make her feel more at home?

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