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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bride say is the one flaw with Booker’s looks?
(a) His limp.
(b) His paunch.
(c) His baldness.
(d) The scar on his shoulder.

2. Why does Sweetness rejoice in Bride’s accomplishment, in accusing Sylvia Huxley of abuse?
(a) Because it soothed her memories of her own abuse.
(b) Because it helped Bride live with what she had seen.
(c) Because she kept a corrupt woman from get away with her behavior.
(d) Because a little black girl took down a white woman.

3. What is the last thing Bride remembers saying before Sylvia Huxley beats her?
(a) That she was one of the children who…
(b) That she knows what Sylvia Huxley did.
(c) That she remembers Sylvia Huxley from school.
(d) That she knows that Sylvia Huxley was innocent.

4. What does Bride say will keep her from ever forgetting Sylvia Huxley’s attack?
(a) Her shame.
(b) Her paralyzed arm.
(c) Her limp.
(d) Her medical bills.

5. What does Bride say she would do, to get her mother to touch her?
(a) Be bad so she could be spanked.
(b) Lie on top of her in bed, so she would have to be shoved off.
(c) Break down in tears so she would get hugged.
(d) Raise her fists to her mother so her mother would have to defend herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bride compare her sex life to?

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

3. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?

4. What did Bride and Booker quarrel about the night he left?

5. Who does Bride say Brooklyn dates?

(see the answer key)

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