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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. How did Trethewey's parents meet?
(a) They were both interning for the same congressman.
(b) On a protest together.
(c) They were neighbors.
(d) In a college literature course.

2. What song did Trethewey remember was playing when she left Mississippi with her mother, even though it probably was not the song that she heard?
(a) Just My Imagination.
(b) Hold My Hand.
(c) Remember.
(d) Come Back to Me.

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

4. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?
(a) The Sea.
(b) The Fisher.
(c) The Starlight.
(d) The Stallion.

5. What was the name of the street Gwendolyn lived on when she was killed?
(a) Wysteria Drive.
(b) Memorial Drive.
(c) Lakelane Drive.
(d) Stone Cold Drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?

2. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?

3. What protest did Trethewey's grandmother join in 1963?

4. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?

5. What truth did the photograph of Trethewey with her family from 1974 make clear, according to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Gwendolyn's paternal grandmother, Narcissus, dislike Gwendolyn's mother?

4. What was Trethewey's last image of her mother while her mother was living?

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

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

7. What did Trethewey remember fearing about her drives around Atlanta with Joel?

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

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

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

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