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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Booker say has become his only judge?
(a) His sister.
(b) Bride.
(c) Adam.
(d) Queen.

3. 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) Hanging her laundry.
(c) Sitting in the sun reading.
(d) Burning her box spring to get the bedbugs out.

4. What is the weather like when Booker leaves his family’s home?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Cloudy.
(c) Rain.
(d) Severe storms.

5. When does Bride discover that her breasts have been erased?
(a) In the bath.
(b) At the clinic for her foot.
(c) During her accident.
(d) After she can walk again.

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

7. How does Bride say she felt while she was waiting for help?
(a) Furious.
(b) Powerless.
(c) World-hurt.
(d) Suicidal.

8. Where does Booker go after beating the man up?
(a) To his parents’ house.
(b) To class.
(c) To the police.
(d) To his girlfriend’s house.

9. What is the weather like when Booker first sets eyes on Bride?
(a) Severe storms.
(b) Cloudy.
(c) Raining.
(d) Sunshine.

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

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

12. How long did it take for authorities to find Adam’s killer?
(a) One year.
(b) Nine years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six years.

13. 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 found it easier to grieve leaving Bride, like it was easier grieving his brother.
(d) He says that he thought Bride wanted to forgive someone as monstrous as his brother’s murderer.

14. Whose place had Adam taken in Booker’s life?
(a) His father’s.
(b) His dead twin’s.
(c) His younger sister’s.
(d) His best friend’s.

15. What does Brooklyn feel in response to Bride’s note from Whiskey?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Relief.
(d) Sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Booker do to change his mindset after Adam’s funeral?

2. What color wallpaper does this news from home make Sylvia Huxley think of?

3. What is the age beyond which Queen has not raised any of her children?

4. What kind of new product does Bride envision on her way to see Booker?

5. Who does Bride say Booker must have been talking about, in his writing?

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