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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 does Bride say she regrets about Booker?
(a) She says that she should not have trusted him.
(b) She says that she should have tried to meet his family.
(c) She says that she should have talked to his friends more.
(d) She says that she should not have loaned him money.

2. What does Bride say she enjoyed about dancing with Booker?
(a) Booker’s grace and his sense of rhythm.
(b) How elegant she felt.
(c) Making other couples jealous.
(d) How Booker would handle men who tried to hit on her.

3. What standard does Bride say she holds her relationship with Booker to?
(a) Glossy magazine spreads.
(b) Romance novels.
(c) Old-time silent films.
(d) Adventure films.

4. What does Bride say she wants to do to help her healing?
(a) Go on a cruise.
(b) Go to a hospital.
(c) Go to a spa.
(d) Go on an adventure.

5. What does Sylvia Huxley say she and her cell-mate Julie posted on the walls of their cell?
(a) Photos of children.
(b) Photos of glamor girls.
(c) Photos of distant islands.
(d) Maps of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Julie serving time for?

2. What does Bride compare her sex life to?

3. How does Sylvia Huxley say she avoided the attention of predatory women in prison?

4. What does Bride say she would do, to get her mother to touch her?

5. What is the name of the literary device Toni Morrison is employing when Bride says that “Lula Ann Bridewell…was never a woman”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sylvia Huxley say made Decagon better than Brookhaven?

3. Why does Sweetness say she treated Bride the way she did?

4. While Bride is recovering from her hangover, what scene does she remember seeing from her childhood?

5. What happens when Brooklyn tries to seduce Booker?

6. What kind of friend is Brooklyn?

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

8. What is Bride’s feeling about what she needs to do, to heal herself, and how does Brooklyn respond?

9. How is Booker different from the other relationships Bride has had?

10. What is Bride’s state of mind as she is healing from the beating Sylvia Huxley gave her?

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