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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. Which group of people did Trethewey's grandmother house in the 1960s, which raised the ire of the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) The Quakers.
(b) The Mennonites.
(c) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(d) The Revers.

2. What kind of disposition did Trethewey have as a child?
(a) Always joyful and joking.
(b) Superstitious and anxious.
(c) Calm and relaxed.
(d) Angry and brooding.

3. Which Supreme Court case ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
(a) Stoker v. Georgia.
(b) Scott v. North Carolina.
(c) Regis v. Florida.
(d) Loving v. Virginia.

4. What did Gwendolyn wear in her last formal photograph before she was killed?
(a) A red A-line dress.
(b) A black sheath dress.
(c) A wedding dress.
(d) A green bridesmaid's dress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Trethewey's parents meet?

2. What did Joel tell Trethewey was the reason his feet were deformed?

3. What popular television show had Trethewey watched all summer in 1973?

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

5. Which family that Trethewey and her family befriended reminded her of the Jackson Five?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Trethewey begin to notice when she was out as a child with each of her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

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