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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bride say she regrets about Booker?
(a) She says that she should not have loaned him money.
(b) She says that she should have talked to his friends more.
(c) She says that she should not have trusted him.
(d) She says that she should have tried to meet his family.

2. What kinds of stories does Julie tell at night?
(a) Life stories.
(b) Stories of other convicted women’s lives.
(c) Sylvia Huxley’s stories.
(d) Fairy tales.

3. When does Bride notice that her pubic hair is gone?
(a) When she launches You, Girl.
(b) When Booker leaves her.
(c) When she drives to see Sylvia Huxley.
(d) When she goes on vacation.

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

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

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

7. How does Bride describe what she felt Booker when he dumped her?
(a) Annihilated.
(b) Dismembered.
(c) Replaced.
(d) Erased.

8. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the best part of Decagon?
(a) The library.
(b) The other women.
(c) The food.
(d) The work.

9. What feeling does Bride get from using Booker’s shaving brush?
(a) Arousal.
(b) Control.
(c) Power.
(d) Satisfaction.

10. Where do Sylvia Huxley and Julie work at the prison?
(a) The grounds keeping crew.
(b) The sewing shop.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) The physical plant.

11. What was Julie serving time for?
(a) Letting her child drown in the bathtub.
(b) Stifling her child.
(c) Abusing the girl she was babysitting.
(d) Losing her employer’s kids in the woods.

12. What does Bride say she did not know about Booker?
(a) What he did for work.
(b) Where he went at night.
(c) Who else he was sleeping with.
(d) Where he came from.

13. How does Booker describe Bride’s skin color?
(a) Licorice.
(b) Chocolate soufflé
(c) Oreo.
(d) Chocolate syrup.

14. What describes Bride’s state of mind while she is recovering?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Schadenfreude.
(d) Anomie.

15. What advice does Bride remember Jeri giving her about make up?
(a) Not to wear any.
(b) Only to wear a little eyeliner.
(c) To match her eye shadow with her shoes.
(d) Only to wear a little lipstick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?

3. What does Sylvia Huxley say she and her cell-mate Julie posted on the walls of their cell?

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

5. What percent of Americans does Sweetness think have African blood

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