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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 heavy brass bullet belt.
(b) A short black cocktail dress.
(c) A kimono.
(d) A colorful wrap around her hair.

2. In what year was Trethewey born?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1966.

3. What name did Trethewey's father assign her in the short stories he wrote?
(a) Athena.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Ilias.
(d) Cassandra.

4. What years did Trethewey try to forget as much about as she could?
(a) The years between 1973 and 1985.
(b) The years between 1970 and 1980.
(c) The years between 1990 and 1998.
(d) The years between 1980 and 1989.

5. Which face is the laughing face in a Janus mask?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Leah.
(c) Thalia.
(d) Persephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of disposition did Trethewey have as a child?

2. What moment from Part II did Trethewey recall at her mother's funeral?

3. What kind of plant did Trethewey take from Gwendolyn's apartment in Part I after she was killed?

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

5. What occasion did Trethewey's birth coincide with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Trethewey remember most clearly about leaving Mississippi for Atlanta in 1972?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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