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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Brooklyn?
(a) 27.
(b) 23.
(c) 21.
(d) 32.

2. 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) Break down in tears so she would get hugged.
(d) Lie on top of her in bed, so she would have to be shoved off.

3. What does Sylvia Huxley say she did after Bride’s visit?
(a) Went out for food.
(b) Slept.
(c) Cried.
(d) Hitch-hiked out of town.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bride say is the one flaw with Booker’s looks?

2. How does Sylvia Huxley say she avoided the attention of predatory women in prison?

3. How does Bride describe her conversations with Booker?

4. What feeling does Bride get from using Booker’s shaving brush?

5. What does Bride say she did not know about Booker?

(see the answer key)

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