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

2. What did Gwendolyn tell Trethewey to do the day they were going to move out and she left Joel?
(a) To meet her at the shelter later that day.
(b) To put everything she wanted to take at the front of her closet and stacked on her dresser.
(c) To skip school.
(d) To meet her around the corner from the hotel.

3. What happened shortly after Trethewey told Gwendolyn about how Joel tormented her?
(a) Gwendolyn sent Trethewey to live with her grandmother.
(b) Gwendolyn put her plan in place to leave Joel.
(c) Gwendolyn told Trethewey she needed to get a job.
(d) Gwendolyn sent Trethewey to live with her father.

4. What did Joel tell Gwendolyn he would do if she left him?
(a) Kill her and the kids.
(b) Move out of state.
(c) Take all her money.
(d) Make sure people knew how bad she was.

5. What friend did Trethewey visit the medium with?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Lindel.
(c) Bernice.
(d) Hattie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Joel tell his therapist years later about coming to see Tretheway in Part IV?

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

4. When was Joel's first attempt to kill Gwendolyn?

5. What did Gwendolyn write about Joel's feelings towards Trethewey?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gwendolyn write in her notes that her marriage to Joel had happened in the first place?

3. What happened after Trethewey's "rational mind" took over when considering what the medium had told her (129)?

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

5. What did Gwendolyn give Trethewey that provided a "crucial outlet" for her (106)?

6. What happened after Gwendolyn told Joel Trethewey knew he was beating her?

7. How long was it before Trethewey had a chance to read her mother's notes that were taken from her briefcase by the police?

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

9. What did Mrs. Messick tell Trethewey's mother about how she was doing in school?

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

(see the answer keys)

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