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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 books did Sylvia Huxley’s family read?
2. How does Booker describe Bride’s skin color?
3. What does Bride say she did not know about Booker?
4. Where do Sylvia Huxley and Julie work at the prison?
5. How does Sylvia Huxley say she felt when she was finally released?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Brooklyn say her impression of Booker was?
2. How does Bride say she was different from her friends, in terms of how they treated their boyfriends?
3. What benefits does Sweetness say she enjoyed because of her light skin?
4. How does Bride react to the changes her body is experiencing?
5. Why does Sweetness say she told Lula Ann to call her Sweetness instead of Mama?
6. Why does Sweetness say she treated Bride the way she did?
7. How does Sylvia Huxley react to Bride’s visit?
8. While Bride is recovering from her hangover, what scene does she remember seeing from her childhood?
9. What does Bride find when she stars going through Booker’s possessions at her house?
10. Where does Sylvia Huxley say she found a refuge from prison life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate God Help the Child as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. How does Bride make the trip back to childhood and then forward again, in a new way? Compare and contrast her different periods of puberty.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for God Help the Child? What is the ideal reader for God Help the Child likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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