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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn’t Bride call the police?
(a) She refuses to make life any harder for Sylvia Huxley.
(b) She cannot find her phone.
(c) She does not think anyone will believe her.
(d) She does not want to ruin her brand with the publicity.

2. What course of study does Booker find engaging?
(a) The study of black history.
(b) The study of race in American literature.
(c) The study of abuses in law enforcement.
(d) The study of economics.

3. What is a quadroon?
(a) Someone with two African grandparents.
(b) Someone with four African grandparents.
(c) Someone with one African grandparent.
(d) Someone with three African grandparents.

4. When Bride thinks of her response to Booker’s statement that she was not the woman he wanted, what does she compare herself to?
(a) A jilted old woman.
(b) A third-grader.
(c) An angry teacher.
(d) A disappointed mother.

5. How does Bride say Booker made her feel?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Colonized.
(c) Tempestuous.
(d) Loved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bride say was the worst form of punishment her mother would use?

2. What does the narrator say made Bride and Booker act like a true couple?

3. What personal trait does Brooklyn claim to have, that justifies her feelings?

4. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?

5. What is the name of the literary device Toni Morrison is employing when Bride says that “Lula Ann Bridewell…was never a woman”?

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