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

2. What job did Gwendolyn hold at the time of her death?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Court reporter.
(c) Personnel director for human resources at the county mental health agency.
(d) Legal clerk.

3. What was the name of Trethewey's grandfather, Gwendolyn's father, who Trethewey never met?
(a) Stennie.
(b) Lenny.
(c) Robert.
(d) Ralph.

4. Which of the following images did Trethewey remember seeing the morning after her mother's death?
(a) Young children playing around the crime tape.
(b) A bullet hole in the wall of her bedroom.
(c) The photographers pushing open the door to the apartment building.
(d) Blood on the stairwell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which magazine published pictures of Emmett Till after his brutal death in 1955?

2. What did Trethewey's father always tell her she would become when she grew up?

3. Which famous monument was in sight of the apartment Gwendolyn lived in when she was killed?

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

5. Where did Trethewey's grandmother tell her she still felt pain sometimes after Gwendolyn was dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 Trethewey's father encourage her to become a writer?

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

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

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

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

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

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