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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What personal trait does Brooklyn claim to have, that justifies her feelings?
(a) The ability to see into people’s fears.
(b) The ability to see people’s vulnerabilities.
(c) The ability to work hard and get ahead.
(d) The ability to see what’s about to happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Bride pick up from Mr. Ponti?
(a) Money for Booker.
(b) Booker’s trumpet.
(c) Booker’s father’s watch.
(d) Jewelry of Booker’s.

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) Hold her and apologize for her experiences.
(d) Ask permission to show tenderness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it that made Booker lonely about his family’s funeral for Adam?

2. What color are Rain’s eyes?

3. What is the African ritual Booker thinks of for punishing the man who killed his brother?

4. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?

5. What do Steve and Evelyn cook for Bride?

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