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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Gwendolyn get a job in the early years she and Trethewey were in Atlanta?
2. What surprise did Gwendolyn have for Trethewey in 1973?
3. Where is Trethewey's distinctive birthmark?
4. Which great-aunt did Trethewey spend much time with as a child?
5. How old was Gwendolyn when she was killed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross in the driveway of Trethewey's grandmother's house in the 1960s?
2. What monument was very close to the apartment where Trethewey's mother was killed?
3. What did Trethewey remember most clearly about leaving Mississippi for Atlanta in 1972?
4. What occasion did Trethewey's birth also mark in 1966?
5. What was unusual about the plant Trethewey saved after her mother's death?
6. Why did Trethewey's father want to take her and her mother to Mexico in the 1960s?
7. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in her dream in Part I?
8. What does the photograph from May 1974 make plain to Trethewey when she looks at it now?
9. What was Trethewey's last image of her mother while her mother was living?
10. Why did Gwendolyn's paternal grandmother, Narcissus, dislike Gwendolyn's mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring how and when Trethewey became aware of her status and difficulties as a mixed-race child in the American South in the 1960s and 1970s, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Which extended family members of Trethewey's were most influential in her early life and upbringing, and why? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why did Trethewey decide not to tell her mother about Joel's torments and psychological abuses of her? What connection did Trethewey make between her decision not to tell her mother and her mother's murder years later? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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