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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. How many other boys had the killer killed?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

2. How has Booker injured his arm?
(a) Bar fight.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Drunken fall.
(d) Logging accident.

3. 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.

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

5. What does Booker reproach himself with?
(a) Failing to see his own obsession as part of the world’s plan.
(b) Wasting his time dreaming.
(c) Loving too well for mere human beings.
(d) Remaining aloof from others and judging their flaws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What course of study does Booker find engaging?

3. How does Queen characterize Booker to Bride?

4. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the only pleasure she had ever had?

5. What term does Booker use for the pedophile he has just beaten up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What alarming discovery does Bride make in the restroom on her way to Whiskey, CA?

2. How do Bride and Booker’s opinions about race differ?

3. What books does Booker read while Bride is at work?

4. How did Booker end up studying economics?

5. What precipitates Booker’s departure from his family home?

6. How does the narrator describe Booker’s moment of self-realization?

7. What common thread does the narrator say Bride sees in Booker dumping her and in Sylvia Huxley beating her?

8. How does Bride end up at Steve and Evelyn’s house with Rain?

9. What happens when Bride meets Queen?

10. What happens when Bride finds Booker?

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