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

2. Who did Gwendolyn visit a few weeks before she was killed?
(a) A psychic.
(b) A priest.
(c) Her first husband.
(d) An old friend from high school.

3. What protest did Trethewey's grandmother join in 1963?
(a) A protest led by Black citizens in Biloxi to highlight Black peoples' right to use public beaches.
(b) A supermarket protest in Biloxi to protest for equal treatment for Blacks in shops and restaurants.
(c) A protest led by Black citizens in Biloxi to push for equal voting rights.
(d) A bus boycott in Biloxi to protest for equal treatment for Blacks on public transportation.

4. What kind of plant did Trethewey take from Gwendolyn's apartment in Part I after she was killed?
(a) A bonsai.
(b) A dieffenbachia.
(c) A basil plant.
(d) A hydrangea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What John Banville Book does Trethewey begin the book with a quote from?

2. Which aunt's and uncle's house was separated from Trethewey's by the highway?

3. What did Trethewey see on her mother's face in her dream in Part I that related to her mother's death?

4. What did Atlanta gain a reputation for during the civil rights era?

5. What name did Trethewey's father assign her in the short stories he wrote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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