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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What turned Booker’s life around, after he leaves his family?
(a) Returning to school.
(b) An inheritance from Mr. Drew.
(c) Breaking up with Felicity.
(d) Beating up the crack smoking couple.

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

3. When Booker writes a short journal entry apologizing to Adam, how does he explain his reasoning for having enslaved him to his death?
(a) He says that he was tricked into thinking grief was more real than living.
(b) He says that it gave him an illusion of control.
(c) He says that it let him bear the crushing grief and injustice.
(d) He says that the violence of his emotions needed that protection.

4. What does Booker say is the connection between his leaving and his brother’s death?
(a) He says that he couldn't stay with someone who was also carrying so much childhood trauma.
(b) He says that he loved her too much to watch herself give her love away the way he had been giving his love away grieving his brother.
(c) He says that he thought Bride wanted to forgive someone as monstrous as his brother’s murderer.
(d) He says that he found it easier to grieve leaving Bride, like it was easier grieving his brother.

5. What news does Sweetness get at the end of the book?
(a) Bride is going to have a baby.
(b) Queen has died.
(c) Bride and Booker are getting married.
(d) Bride forgives her for being aloof as a parent.

6. What did the killer use as ‘bait’ to bring boys to him?
(a) Candy.
(b) A dog.
(c) A girl.
(d) Money.

7. What color are Rain’s eyes?
(a) Coal-black.
(b) Emerald.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

8. What are Steve and Evelyn and Rain’s beds made of?
(a) One of steel, one of wood.
(b) One of boxes, one of cotton batting.
(c) One of rope, one of iron.
(d) One of plastic, one of bundled paper.

9. What does Queen accuse Booker of doing, in regard to Adam?
(a) Keeping his spirit trapped on earth.
(b) Killing himself so that he can know what it’s like.
(c) Tying his corpse to his shoulders.
(d) Preventing the family from moving on.

10. What is the title Booker imagines for his book?
(a) Mammon and Slaves.
(b) The Cross and the Vault.
(c) The Economics of Jim Crow.
(d) Race and Industrial Economics.

11. What was it that made Booker lonely about his family’s funeral for Adam?
(a) The sparseness.
(b) The lack of emotion.
(c) The excess.
(d) The indulgence.

12. What does Rain say Bride is the first person to do for her?
(a) Take her for a walk to the lake.
(b) Protect her with her body.
(c) Ask permission to show tenderness.
(d) Hold her and apologize for her experiences.

13. How does Queen characterize Booker to Bride?
(a) She says that he is too short-tempered for his own good.
(b) She says that he is unstable.
(c) She says that he is a ‘leaver.’
(d) She says that he is a brooding romantic.

14. How long does Bride stay in her car after she wrecks?
(a) Three hours.
(b) All night.
(c) Six hours.
(d) An hour.

15. What is Queen doing when Bride arrives at her house?
(a) Cleaning her rugs by beating them with a rug beater in the yard.
(b) Sitting in the sun reading.
(c) Hanging her laundry.
(d) Burning her box spring to get the bedbugs out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bride say Sylvia Huxley’s beating confirmed for her?

2. How many other boys had the killer killed?

3. What trait of her mother’s does Sylvia Huxley say helped her in prison?

4. What tradition does Booker’s family keep up?

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

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