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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 Trethewey find five years after her mother's death?
(a) A cassette tape of her voice.
(b) A box of uncashed checks from her mother's job.
(c) A box of pictures of her with Trethewey's father.
(d) A set of architectural plans she had made for a house she wanted to build herself.

2. Which months did the medium say he thought were significant to Trethewey at the beginning of the session?
(a) April and June.
(b) August and September.
(c) January and August.
(d) March and April.

3. What did Joel tell his therapist years later about coming to see Tretheway in Part IV?
(a) He wanted to pass a message to her mother through her.
(b) He did not remember going to see her that night.
(c) He wanted to see her one last time before he killed himself.
(d) He wanted to kill her then, but she spoke kindly to him, so he did not.

4. When did Gwendolyn start doing more things socially and for herself?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1979.

5. Why did Trethewey stop doing her hair in Part III?
(a) Joel used her hairbrush and left grease and dandruff in it.
(b) Joel told her he would cut if off if it looked like it did.
(c) Joel would not give her money for hair products.
(d) Gwendolyn would not pay for Trethewey to get her hair cut at a salon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Joel tried and convicted in 1983?

2. How long did Trethewey go to therapy with Joel before she realized she wanted to end the marriage?

3. When did Trethewey's father die?

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

5. What was Trethewey's favorite afternoon snack when she was a senior in high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 Gwendolyn write was the impetus for Joel's first death threat against her?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Trethewey go out of her way to avoid in Atlanta when she moved there as an adult?

10. What was Trethewey's first impression of the medium she visited?

(see the answer keys)

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