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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. What kind of car did the man Gwendolyn introduced Trethewey to in Part II drive?
2. Which face is the laughing face in a Janus mask?
3. What was Atlanta's nickname in the 1960s?
4. In what year was Trethewey born?
5. Which famous monument was in sight of the apartment Gwendolyn lived in when she was killed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Trethewey's father want to take her and her mother to Mexico in the 1960s?
2. What did Trethewey remember most clearly about leaving Mississippi for Atlanta in 1972?
3. Why did it take longer than it might have for Trethewey to realize her father and mother had separated?
4. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in her dream in Part I?
5. When and where did Trethewey first encounter racism from other children?
6. Why did Trethewey's parents travel to Ohio to elope in 1965?
7. What image did Trethewey keep in her head from the first day after her mother's death?
8. What pain did Trethewey's grandmother describe long after Gwendolyn had died?
9. Why did Gwendolyn's paternal grandmother, Narcissus, dislike Gwendolyn's mother?
10. What monument was very close to the apartment where Trethewey's mother was killed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the various people, from the police to the owners of Gwendolyn's apartment, treat Trethewey in the immediate aftermath of her mother's death in 1985? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
How and when did Threthewey begin to feel more separated from her mother and her mother's life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How did Trethewey connect her recurring dreams about her mother and her own near-drowning experience as a child? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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