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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the literary device Toni Morrison is employing when Bride says that “Lula Ann Bridewell…was never a woman”?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Characterization.

2. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?
(a) Leave her on the church steps.
(b) Give her up for adoption.
(c) Drown her in the river.
(d) Stifle her with a blanket.

3. What percent of Americans does Sweetness think have African blood
(a) 20%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

4. How does Bride respond when Booker tells her that she is not the woman he wants?
(a) She says ‘why do you treat me like that?’
(b) She says ‘neither am I.’
(c) She says ‘but you said you wanted me yesterday.’
(d) She says ‘then you don’t get me.’

5. What color is Lula Ann’s skin?
(a) Blue-black dark.
(b) High yellow.
(c) Moderately dark.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like, the day after Booker leaves?

2. What does Bride compare her six-month relationship with Booker to?

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

4. How does Sweetness feel about her daughter’s skin color?

5. How does Sweetness say she intends to hold onto her dignity?

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