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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Queen say Booker must have been talking to, with his writing?
(a) Himself.
(b) Queen.
(c) Bride.
(d) Adam.

3. What does the narrator say made Bride and Booker act like a true couple?
(a) Planning for the future.
(b) Carrying a baby.
(c) Taking care of Queen.
(d) Taking care of each other.

4. 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) An angry teacher.
(c) A third-grader.
(d) A jilted old woman.

5. How does Booker describe the atmosphere in his family’s house after Adam’s funeral?
(a) Loving.
(b) Strained.
(c) Subdued.
(d) Tormented.

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

7. How does Bride say Steve and Evelyn treated her?
(a) Like a lost traveler.
(b) Like visiting royalty.
(c) Like a burden and nuisance.
(d) Like a stray cat.

8. What does Booker want instead of death for Adam’s killer?
(a) He says that he wants his brother back.
(b) He says that he wants justice.
(c) He says that he wants his life.
(d) He says that he wants restitution.

9. What do Steve and Evelyn cook for Bride?
(a) Quail.
(b) Bread.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Chicken soup.

10. How does the narrator say Booker thinks about race?
(a) Skin color is a social construct.
(b) Skin color is fateful,. in an America built on slavery.
(c) Darker-skinned people have a harder time than lighter-skinned people.
(d) Skin color is just skin color, not a flaw or a curse.

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

12. What did Adam’s killer do for a living?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Bible salesman.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mechanic.

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

14. What is Booker’s central intellectual fascination?
(a) Art.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Race.

15. What does Queen thank Jesus for?
(a) Her ability to bear grief.
(b) Her insight into people’s hearts.
(c) Her gift of second sight.
(d) Her blanket of forgetfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose place had Adam taken in Booker’s life?

2. What did the killer use as ‘bait’ to bring boys to him?

3. Where had Steve and Evelyn first met?

4. What does Bride say is the only thing left for her to do?

5. How many other boys had the killer killed?

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