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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 Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?
(a) She says that she thinks they want her to come back to Jesus.
(b) She says that she thinks they are glad to be rid of her.
(c) She says that she thinks they wish she were dead.
(d) She says that she thinks they are pining for her to get out.

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

3. Why does Sweetness rejoice in Bride’s accomplishment, in accusing Sylvia Huxley of abuse?
(a) Because a little black girl took down a white woman.
(b) Because it soothed her memories of her own abuse.
(c) Because it helped Bride live with what she had seen.
(d) Because she kept a corrupt woman from get away with her behavior.

4. How does Bride refer to Sylvia Huxley before she visits her?
(a) A classy hooker.
(b) White trash.
(c) A grand madam.
(d) Sex trash.

5. What does Brooklyn say Bride does not know about her ex-boyfriend Booker?
(a) That she tried to seduce him.
(b) That he tried to seduce him.
(c) That she had been having an affair with him.
(d) That she had known him as a ladies man in college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvia Huxley say her status was, in the prison?

2. How does Brooklyn wear her hair?

3. What color clothes does Bride primarily wear?

4. What leads Bride to Mr. Ponti?

5. What does Bride remember as the most important part of her testimony against Sylvia Huxley?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of relationships is Bride accustomed to having with men?

3. What kind of gesture does Bride make to Sylvia Huxley, and why does it go so wrong?

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

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

6. What kind of friend is Brooklyn?

7. How does Sylvia Huxley react to Bride’s visit?

8. In a number of places, Bride says that she feels ‘erased.’ What is the importance of this feeling, in God Help the Child?

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

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

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