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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the only pleasure she had ever had?
(a) Beating up Bride.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Moving away from home.
(d) Praying in church.

2. Where does Booker go after beating the man up?
(a) To the police.
(b) To his girlfriend’s house.
(c) To class.
(d) To his parents’ house.

3. How does Sweetness say she intends to hold onto her dignity?
(a) By associating with the best people.
(b) By trying to pass for white.
(c) Through distinguishing actions.
(d) By living in the right neighborhood.

4. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?
(a) Real life.
(b) Serious inquiry.
(c) Redemptive ideas.
(d) Morality.

5. What was it that made Booker lonely about his family’s funeral for Adam?
(a) The excess.
(b) The lack of emotion.
(c) The indulgence.
(d) The sparseness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bride’s relationship with Sylvia Huxley?

2. When does Bride notice that her pubic hair is gone?

3. What did the killer use as ‘bait’ to bring boys to him?

4. What possessions of Booker’s does Bride keep?

5. What is Booker’s central intellectual fascination?

(see the answer key)

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