View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Bride say Sylvia Huxley’s beating confirmed for her?
(a) Her wishy-washy-ness.
(b) Her generosity.
(c) Her inherent power.
(d) Her powerlessness.

4. What feeling does Bride get from using Booker’s shaving brush?
(a) Power.
(b) Control.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Arousal.

5. What possessions of Booker’s does Bride keep?
(a) His books.
(b) His clothing.
(c) His record collection.
(d) His shaving brush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads Bride to Mr. Ponti?

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

3. What is the weather like when Booker first sets eyes on Bride?

4. What was it that made Booker lonely about his family’s funeral for Adam?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 281 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample