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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 remember Gwendolyn wearing to work during her first years in Atlanta?
(a) A short black cocktail dress.
(b) A kimono.
(c) A colorful wrap around her hair.
(d) A heavy brass bullet belt.

2. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?
(a) No!
(b) Help us!
(c) Fire!
(d) I can save you!

3. What did Atlanta gain a reputation for during the civil rights era?
(a) Bringing out people from all walks of life to protest.
(b) Being racially progressive.
(c) Having a strong court system.
(d) Rioting.

4. What was the name of Trethewey's grandmother's mother-in-law?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Marzipan.
(d) Narcissus.

5. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?
(a) The City Too Busy to Hate.
(b) The Melting Pot.
(c) The Eclectic City.
(d) The City That Welcomes Everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did Trethewey sometimes play with her friend Dede?

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

3. What was the last image Trethewey had of her mother before Gwendolyn's death?

4. Which great-grandmother does Trethewey write about in Part I?

5. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What pain did Trethewey's grandmother describe long after Gwendolyn had died?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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