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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of Americans does Sweetness think have African blood
(a) 10%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

2. What did Sweetness try to prepare Bride to live with, by being hard on her?
(a) The lusts of men.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Her dark skin.
(d) Original sin.

3. What does Brooklyn say Bride does not know about her ex-boyfriend Booker?
(a) That she had been having an affair with him.
(b) That he tried to seduce him.
(c) That she had known him as a ladies man in college.
(d) That she tried to seduce him.

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

5. What part of Bride’s appearance does Sweetness say she had a difficult time taming?
(a) Her gangly limbs.
(b) Her breasts.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her clothes that were filth from outdoor play.

6. How does Bride say Booker typically referred to her?
(a) As ‘baby.’
(b) As ‘Bride.’
(c) As ‘woman.’
(d) As ‘wench.’

7. What does Bride say is the one flaw with Booker’s looks?
(a) His baldness.
(b) The scar on his shoulder.
(c) His limp.
(d) His paunch.

8. When does Bride say that her ‘melting away’ starts?
(a) When she meets Booker.
(b) When Booker leaves her.
(c) When she leaves her mother’s house.
(d) When You, Girl launches.

9. Who does Bride say Brooklyn dates?
(a) Black guys, mostly.
(b) Mostly foreigners.
(c) Guys of all races.
(d) Only white guys.

10. Where does Bride say she wants to go, to escape from her life?
(a) New York.
(b) Whiskey, CA.
(c) Anywhere.
(d) Paris, France.

11. What does Bride say Booker was using her for?
(a) Money and sex.
(b) Money and emotional support.
(c) Shelter and understanding.
(d) Legal bills and protection.

12. Where does Sylvia Huxley find her next job?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A funeral home.
(d) A nursing home.

13. What made Sylvia Huxley’ previous jail worse than Decagon?
(a) The constant noise.
(b) The food.
(c) The prisoner-guard drama.
(d) Constant strip searches.

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

15. How does Bride characterize her conversations with most of her boyfriends?
(a) Serious and intellectual.
(b) Intimate and flirtatious.
(c) Witty banter.
(d) Sarcastic and joking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Bride give Sylvia Huxley?

2. What does Bride say she would do, to get her mother to touch her?

3. How old was Lula Ann when she dropped her name and started to go by ‘Bride’?

4. What did Bride and Booker quarrel about the night he left?

5. What is the name of the literary device Toni Morrison is employing when Bride says that “Lula Ann Bridewell…was never a woman”?

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