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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Rain leave her mother’s house?
(a) Because there was never anything to eat there.
(b) Because her mother’s clients were sexually abusing her.
(c) Because her mother beat her.
(d) Because her mother was never home.

3. How does Queen explain the effect Adam’s death had on Booker’s life?
(a) She says that Booker internalized injustice when Adam died.
(b) She says that Booker’s parents gave him too much to grieve, and it warped him.
(c) She says that Adam’s death became Booker’s life.
(d) She says that Booker had always been afraid to live, but Adam’s death gave him the excuse to retreat from life.

4. Bride says that Booker doesn’t have to love her but he does have to do what?
(a) Respect her.
(b) Answer her.
(c) Give her her adult body back.
(d) Be her friend.

5. When did Booker’s family’s routines change?
(a) When Booker left the house.
(b) When Booker graduated high school.
(c) When Booker got his first job.
(d) When Adam disappeared.

6. How has Booker injured his arm?
(a) Logging accident.
(b) Drunken fall.
(c) Bar fight.
(d) Being arrested.

7. How does Booker describe his family?
(a) Small and not close.
(b) Small and tight.
(c) Large and tight.
(d) Large and sprawling.

8. How does Bride say Booker made her feel?
(a) Colonized.
(b) Loved.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Tempestuous.

9. What does Booker do to change his mindset after Adam’s funeral?
(a) Start trumpet lessons.
(b) Live with his aunt.
(c) Go to college.
(d) Play sports.

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

11. What advice does Queen give Booker after Adam’s death?
(a) To let it go and move on.
(b) Not to let go of him until he’s ready.
(c) To Say the things he needs to say to him.
(d) To stage a ritual to let him go.

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

13. Where had Steve and Evelyn first met?
(a) Mexico.
(b) London.
(c) Reed College.
(d) India.

14. Where does Booker express himself best?
(a) In academic essays.
(b) In music.
(c) In critical theory.
(d) In mathematical formulas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say Booker thinks about race?

2. What is Booker’s central intellectual fascination?

3. When does Bride discover that her breasts have been erased?

4. What reason does Bride give for the changes in her body?

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

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