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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brooklyn wear her hair?
(a) Long and sumptuous.
(b) Blond dreadlocks.
(c) Buzz cut.
(d) Short and chic.

2. What does the narrator say made Bride and Booker act like a true couple?
(a) Planning for the future.
(b) Taking care of Queen.
(c) Taking care of each other.
(d) Carrying a baby.

3. How does Bride refer to Sylvia Huxley before she visits her?
(a) White trash.
(b) Sex trash.
(c) A grand madam.
(d) A classy hooker.

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

5. How does the narrator say Booker thinks about race?
(a) Skin color is fateful,. in an America built on slavery.
(b) Skin color is just skin color, not a flaw or a curse.
(c) Darker-skinned people have a harder time than lighter-skinned people.
(d) Skin color is a social construct.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Booker injured his arm?

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

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

4. What is the title Booker imagines for his book?

5. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?

(see the answer key)

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