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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 occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?
(a) The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Fifth anniversary of the March on Washington.
(c) The eightieth anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
(d) The hundredth anniversary of Mississippi's Confederate Memorial Day.

2. Where did Trethewey's father complete his graduate studies?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York City.
(d) Biloxi.

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

4. What did Joel tell Trethewey was the reason his feet were deformed?
(a) An injury from his father.
(b) An accident in school.
(c) A birth defect.
(d) Vietnam.

5. What moment from Part II did Trethewey recall at her mother's funeral?
(a) A happy memory of her mother dancing at a party.
(b) An angry memory of when Joel hit Trethewey.
(c) A suspicious moment when Trethewey thought Joel was stealing from her mother.
(d) A sad memory of her mother fighting with Joel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experience from Mexico did Trethewey always remember with some trepidation afterwards?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What occasion did Trethewey's birth also mark in 1966?

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

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

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