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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 a quadroon?
(a) Someone with three African grandparents.
(b) Someone with one African grandparent.
(c) Someone with two African grandparents.
(d) Someone with four African grandparents.

2. What is the weather like, the day after Booker leaves?
(a) Severe storms.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Cloudy.

3. How old was Lula Ann when she dropped her name and started to go by ‘Bride’?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 16.

4. How does Sweetness feel about her daughter’s skin color?
(a) She is enamored.
(b) She is sympathetic.
(c) She is appalled.
(d) It makes her fiercely protective.

5. When does Bride notice that her pubic hair is gone?
(a) When she drives to see Sylvia Huxley.
(b) When she goes on vacation.
(c) When she launches You, Girl.
(d) When Booker leaves her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of Americans does Sweetness think have African blood

2. Why does Sweetness’ husband leave her?

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

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

5. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?

(see the answer key)

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