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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 it gave him an illusion of control.
(b) He says that it let him bear the crushing grief and injustice.
(c) He says that the violence of his emotions needed that protection.
(d) He says that he was tricked into thinking grief was more real than living.

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

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

5. When Bride thinks of her response to Booker’s statement that she was not the woman he wanted, what does she compare herself to?
(a) A disappointed mother.
(b) A third-grader.
(c) A jilted old woman.
(d) An angry teacher.

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

7. What does Rain prefer to be called?
(a) Raisin.
(b) Woody.
(c) Slinky.
(d) Sue.

8. What news does Sylvia Huxley get from her father?
(a) That her mother died.
(b) That he and her mother have moved.
(c) That her siblings have married.
(d) That she is an aunt.

9. What kind of shop does Mr. Ponti run?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A jewelry store.
(c) A pawn shop.
(d) An antique shop.

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

11. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?
(a) Morality.
(b) Serious inquiry.
(c) Redemptive ideas.
(d) Real life.

12. Who does Bride say Booker must have been talking about, in his writing?
(a) Adam.
(b) Queen.
(c) Her.
(d) Himself.

13. What does Queen give Bride to eat?
(a) Brook trout.
(b) Roasted quail.
(c) Venison.
(d) Chicken soup.

14. How does Booker describe the wall covered in photos in Queens house?
(a) A gallery.
(b) A shrine.
(c) A monument to the departed.
(d) A memorial.

15. How does Booker take notes in class?
(a) He get notes from a friend.
(b) Laptop.
(c) He downloads the online notes.
(d) Paper and pencil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Booker want instead of death for Adam’s killer?

2. What does Rain say Bride is the first person to do for her?

3. Who does Queen say Booker must have been talking to, with his writing?

4. What does Sylvia Huxley say she thanks Bride for?

5. What causes Bride to take off her shirt, revealing her newly returned breasts?

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