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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?
(a) She could never meet her mother’s high standards.
(b) She could never tell what the right thing to do was.
(c) She knew that no matter what she did, she would be punished.
(d) She got so much approval that it made her hungry for boundaries.

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. What is the African ritual Booker thinks of for punishing the man who killed his brother?
(a) Murdering a member of the murderer’s family in retribution.
(b) Tying the dead man to the murderer’s back.
(c) Burying the murderer up to his neck in the sand and letting ants eat him.
(d) Dismembering the murderer and feeding him to the crocodiles.

8. What color wallpaper does this news from home make Sylvia Huxley think of?
(a) Floral yellow.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue and white.
(d) Cream-colored.

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

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

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

12. What is Bride alarmed by when she stops for food on the way to Whiskey?
(a) Her breasts have disappeared.
(b) She is lost.
(c) She is too small for her clothes.
(d) She has lost her wallet.

13. What is the age beyond which Queen has not raised any of her children?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

14. What term does Booker use for the pedophile he has just beaten up?
(a) ‘The scum of the earth.’
(b) ‘The worst of the worst.’
(c) ‘The devil.’
(d) ‘The nicest man in the world.’

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bride say she felt while she was waiting for help?

2. How does the narrator compare the small town of Whiskey to?

3. How does Booker take notes in class?

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

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

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