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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What course of study does Booker find engaging?
(a) The study of black history.
(b) The study of race in American literature.
(c) The study of economics.
(d) The study of abuses in law enforcement.

2. What reason does Bride give for the changes in her body?
(a) The return of ancient wrongs.
(b) Her return to innocence.
(c) Booker’s departure.
(d) A curse from her mother.

3. How does Sylvia Huxley say she felt when she was finally released?
(a) Like she was in love with the world.
(b) Like a character in a book.
(c) Like a foreigner.
(d) Like a child, again.

4. How does Booker describe the atmosphere in his family’s house after Adam’s funeral?
(a) Tormented.
(b) Loving.
(c) Strained.
(d) Subdued.

5. What tradition does Booker’s family keep up?
(a) Sunday church.
(b) Friday night movies.
(c) Monday night chores.
(d) Saturday morning conferences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sweetness try to prepare Bride to live with, by being hard on her?

2. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?

3. Where does Mr. Ponti say Booker is from?

4. What does Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?

5. What is Bride alarmed by when she stops for food on the way to Whiskey?

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