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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 was the first thing Trethewey noticed about the medium?
(a) He moved with a limp.
(b) He had a British accent.
(c) He was very old.
(d) He was very young.

2. What did Trethewey hallucinate home from school with a high fever one day?
(a) That Joel died.
(b) That filth fell onto her from her ceiling.
(c) That her mother died.
(d) That her father died.

3. What play did Trethewey act the lead in in grade school?
(a) The Three Witches.
(b) The Smart Hipster.
(c) The Santa Mouse.
(d) The Reluctant Dragon.

4. What was the first thing the medium did when Trethewey and her friend got there?
(a) Offer to make them tea.
(b) Ask for them to come out on the balcony.
(c) Ask for them to pay him.
(d) Offer to get them an alcoholic drink.

5. What organization helped Gwendolyn when she was trying to leave Joel?
(a) The Black Women's Initiative.
(b) The Women Helping Women Center.
(c) The Women's Resource Center.
(d) The Council for Battered Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn write in her own notes about the reasons she married Joel in the first place?

2. What did Trethewey's new friend Wendy's father do for a living?

3. Why did Trethewey stop doing her hair in Part III?

4. Who was Trethewey's friend Jody's sister?

5. Who came to visit Trethewey and her family for Thanksgiving in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn do just weeks before her death that Trethewey revealed in Part IV?

2. How did Trethewey learn to figure out whether Joel was in the house or not in Part III?

3. Why did Gwendolyn admonish Trethewey about her hair in Part III?

4. What did Trethewey consider about the medium's words to her after she listened back to the recording of their session?

5. Why did Gwendolyn decline an invitation to Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball?

6. In what way was Trethewey careful about how she answered the medium's questions?

7. What did Trethewey tell her mother when Gwendolyn told her Joel wanted to adopt her?

8. What news did Trethewey share with Gwendolyn and Joel that prompted Gwendolyn to stand up for her?

9. What did Joel do that used to make Trethewey sob with fear and anxiety in Part III?

10. What did Gwendolyn write was the impetus for Joel's first death threat against her?

(see the answer keys)

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