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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvia Huxley say her status was, in the prison?
(a) Better than most, except for women who’d committed financial crimes.
(b) About the same as bomb throwers.
(c) Higher only than murderers.
(d) Bottom of the heap.

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

3. What is Bride alarmed by when she stops for food on the way to Whiskey?
(a) She has lost her wallet.
(b) Her breasts have disappeared.
(c) She is too small for her clothes.
(d) She is lost.

4. How does Bride describe herself after the beating?
(a) As a fish out of water.
(b) As a throbbing nerve of pain.
(c) As a broken-winged bird.
(d) As a whipped puppy.

5. What kind of people are Steve and Evelyn?
(a) Loggers.
(b) Hippies.
(c) Vagrants.
(d) Coal miners.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Bride remember witnessing out her window as a child?

4. Where did Bride start her working career?

5. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the best part of Decagon?

(see the answer key)

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