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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Lula Ann’s skin?
(a) High yellow.
(b) Blue-black dark.
(c) White.
(d) Moderately dark.

2. How does Bride treat her pain?
(a) Wine.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Herbal remedies.
(d) Vicodin.

3. Where does Sylvia Huxley find her next job?
(a) A funeral home.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A nursing home.
(d) A cemetery.

4. How old is Brooklyn?
(a) 23.
(b) 32.
(c) 21.
(d) 27.

5. What does Bride compare her six-month relationship with Booker to?
(a) Time in a holding cell.
(b) Time in a carnival.
(c) Time in the wilderness.
(d) Time in a hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sweetness’ husband leave her?

2. Who does Bride say Brooklyn dates?

3. How much money does Bride give Sylvia Huxley?

4. What is Bride’s relationship with Sylvia Huxley?

5. What does Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sylvia Huxley describe her and Julie’s status among the prisoners at Decagon?

2. What does Bride find when she stars going through Booker’s possessions at her house?

3. Why does Sweetness say she told Lula Ann to call her Sweetness instead of Mama?

4. What benefits does Sweetness say she enjoyed because of her light skin?

5. What is the relationship between Bride’s memory of her landlord and her memory of Sylvia Huxley?

6. What sensation does Booker’s shaving brush give Bride?

7. What does skin color mean in Sweetness’ family?

8. What is Brooklyn’s reaction when Bride tells her the whole story of the beating she got from Sylvia Huxley?

9. What does Lula Ann’s dark skin mean to her mother?

10. How does Lula Ann’s skin color affect Sweetness’ marriage?

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