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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 nightmare did Trethewey have shortly after moving to Atlanta?
(a) Her mother left her.
(b) The ground was shaking outside her grandmother's house.
(c) Her father died.
(d) She was in a fire.

2. What is a strange feature of the last formal portrait of Gwendolyn?
(a) A corner of light just behind Gwendolyn's head.
(b) A star fading in the night sky behind Gwendolyn.
(c) A streak of red at Gwendolyn's shoulder.
(d) A double-negative which makes Gwendolyn look like there are two of her.

3. What kind of jewelry does Trethewey wear in the picture of herself and her mother the year they left Mississippi?
(a) Gold earrings.
(b) A pearl ring.
(c) A necklace with her name spelled out.
(d) A heart locket.

4. What surprise did Gwendolyn have for Trethewey in 1973?
(a) She was moving back to Mississippi.
(b) A new house.
(c) A new baby brother.
(d) She was getting back together with Trethewey's father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Trethewey live with her mother when they would go visit her father in graduate school?

2. Where was Trethewey born?

3. What did Trethewey's mother do in the new apartment in Part II to make her feel more at home?

4. What was Trethewey's mother's full name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Trethewey's father encourage her to become a writer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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