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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvia Huxley say she got from her family while she was in prison?
(a) Care packages, but no letters.
(b) Money and clothes.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Long letters with family news.

2. What does Bride compare Sylvia Huxley to?
(a) A runaway train.
(b) A raging alligator.
(c) A bucking bronco.
(d) A hurricane.

3. What does Bride remember witnessing out her window as a child?
(a) Her mother being abused by the landlord.
(b) The landlord sexually abusing a boy.
(c) The landlord beating one of the tenants.
(d) The landlord beating a cat.

4. How does Sylvia Huxley describe life at Decagon?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Serene.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) Loud.

5. What does Bride say she enjoyed about dancing with Booker?
(a) How Booker would handle men who tried to hit on her.
(b) Making other couples jealous.
(c) How elegant she felt.
(d) Booker’s grace and his sense of rhythm.

6. Why does Sweetness say she had to be hard on Bride?
(a) To domesticate her.
(b) To guide her spirit.
(c) To protect her.
(d) To save her soul.

7. When Bride confesses the whole story about Sylvia Huxley, what does Brooklyn suggest?
(a) That Bride should try to contact Sylvia Huxley again.
(b) That they take a cruise.
(c) That they throw a party.
(d) That Bride she contact Booker.

8. How does Bride describe her conversations with Booker?
(a) Intimate and personal.
(b) Sarcastic and joking.
(c) Serious and intellectual.
(d) Intimate and flirtatious.

9. What does Sweetness say she taught Bride about white boys?
(a) To fight them if she had to.
(b) To make sure she always had a trusted authority figure around her.
(c) To cross the street to stay away from them.
(d) To speak her mind to them.

10. How does Sweetness feel about her daughter’s skin color?
(a) She is sympathetic.
(b) It makes her fiercely protective.
(c) She is appalled.
(d) She is enamored.

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

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

13. What color is Lula Ann’s skin?
(a) Blue-black dark.
(b) White.
(c) High yellow.
(d) Moderately dark.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sylvia Huxley say she avoided the attention of predatory women in prison?

2. What color clothes does Bride primarily wear?

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

4. Why did Sylvia Huxley have to quit her first job?

5. What does Bride say Booker was using her for?

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