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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) In a college literature course.
(b) On a protest together.
(c) They were both interning for the same congressman.
(d) They were neighbors.

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

3. What was the name of Trethewey's grandfather, Gwendolyn's father, who Trethewey never met?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Stennie.
(c) Lenny.
(d) Robert.

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

5. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?
(a) Savannah, Georgia.
(b) Biloxi. Mississippi.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Gulfport, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name did Trethewey's father assign her in the short stories he wrote?

3. In what year was Trethewey born?

4. What did Trethewey remember about her trip to Atlanta with her mother?

5. When was the last time Gwendolyn saw her own father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What monument was very close to the apartment where Trethewey's mother was killed?

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

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

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

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

10. What name did Trethewey's father bestow on her in his fiction writing and why is it significant?

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