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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 Gwendolyn's job title in Part III?
(a) Personnel Director, Georgia Retardation Center.
(b) Manager, Macy's.
(c) Manager, Atlanta Public Library.
(d) Personnel Director, Rapid Transit Authority.

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. Where did Joel often take Trethewey on their drives?
(a) Interstate 285.
(b) For ice cream.
(c) To the movies.
(d) To the park.

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

5. What grade was Trethewey in the first time she heard her mother being beaten?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Third.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Second.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some of the staff at the family shelter say to Gwendolyn when she first got there with her children?

2. What did Trethewey show her new friends that was a secret of Joel's in Part III?

3. What is one of the few clues Trethewey had about Gwendolyn's last days?

4. Who did Trethewey confide in about her mother being abused by Joel in Part III?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the medium tell Trethewey he was getting a specific strong vibe about?

2. What did Gwendolyn write was the result of her marriage counseling for her?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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