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

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

3. Who did the medium tell Trethewey was communicating with him from her family?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her father.

4. Which individual helped Gwendolyn at the Council for Battered Women?
(a) Rena Bishop.
(b) Marley Hartford.
(c) Jennifer Jason.
(d) Hattie Bedford.

5. What was one way Trethewey thought the medium might try to find information about her?
(a) Following her secretly.
(b) Searching her name online.
(c) Reading her facial expressions.
(d) Calling her family and asking questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gwendolyn tell Trethewey to do the day they were going to move out and she left Joel?

2. Why was Joel tried and convicted in 1983?

3. What did Joel do to torment Gwendolyn on a regular basis?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who did Trethewey confide in about hearing Joel beat her mother, and how did that person react?

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

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

9. What does Trethewey wonder about what might have changed the course of hers and her mother's lives in Part III?

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

(see the answer keys)

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