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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. Where did Trethewey's grandmother tell her she still felt pain sometimes after Gwendolyn was dead?
(a) Her own navel.
(b) Her ankle.
(c) Her forehead.
(d) Her wrist.

2. When was the last time Gwendolyn saw her own father?
(a) When she was 5.
(b) When she was 16.
(c) When she was 12.
(d) When she was 19.

3. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?
(a) Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough.
(b) Gwendolyn Laura Turnbough.
(c) Gwendolyn Stanley Turnbough.
(d) Gwendolyn Lannie Turnbough.

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

5. How did Trethewey and her mother often get around the city in New Orleans?
(a) By streetcar.
(b) By bus.
(c) On foot.
(d) By train.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Gwendolyn get a job in the early years she and Trethewey were in Atlanta?

3. What state did Trethewey's parents get married in?

4. Which great-aunt did Trethewey spend much time with as a child?

5. What kind of jewelry does Trethewey wear in the picture of herself and her mother the year they left Mississippi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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