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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Sylvia Huxley say she avoided in the prison?
(a) The exercise yard.
(b) The laundry room.
(c) The library.
(d) The cafeteria.

3. How does Sylvia Huxley say she avoided the attention of predatory women in prison?
(a) Her surliness.
(b) Her faith.
(c) Her unattractive scars.
(d) Her size and strength.

4. What color clothes does Bride primarily wear?
(a) Pink.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Crimson.

5. Why did Sylvia Huxley have to quit her first job?
(a) She couldn’t lift the heavy weights she needed to lift.
(b) She was always fighting with other employees.
(c) She could never get to the job on time.
(d) She couldn’t be around children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sweetness say she had to be hard on Bride?

2. How does Brooklyn wear her hair?

3. What does Bride remember as the most important part of her testimony against Sylvia Huxley?

4. What does Sylvia Huxley say she got from her family while she was in prison?

5. What does Bride say was the worst form of punishment her mother would use?

(see the answer key)

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