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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 state did Trethewey's parents get married in?

2. Where was Trethewey born?

3. What did Trethewey yell when she woke up from her dream in Part I?

4. What zodiac sign was Gwendolyn?

5. What was the name of Trethewey's grandmother's mother-in-law?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Trethewey begin to notice when she was out as a child with each of her parents?

2. What is one thing Trethewey remembered her mother doing to their apartment in Atlanta to try to make her feel more at home?

3. What image did Trethewey keep in her head from the first day after her mother's death?

4. How long after her mother's death did Trethewey go back to the site of her murder, and why?

5. What did Trethewey remember fearing about her drives around Atlanta with Joel?

6. Why did Trethewey's parents travel to Ohio to elope in 1965?

7. Why did Gwendolyn's paternal grandmother, Narcissus, dislike Gwendolyn's mother?

8. What question did Trethewey's mother ask her in her dream in Part I?

9. What name did Trethewey's father bestow on her in his fiction writing and why is it significant?

10. What was Trethewey's last image of her mother while her mother was living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were Trethewey's mother's and grandmother's experiences with the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Which extended family members of Trethewey's were most influential in her early life and upbringing, and why? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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