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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 Sylvia Huxley’s beating confirmed for her?
(a) Her wishy-washy-ness.
(b) Her generosity.
(c) Her inherent power.
(d) Her powerlessness.

2. When does Queen say that she learned it wasn’t enough just to be pretty?
(a) When Booker returned to Whiskey.
(b) When the last of her children left her.
(c) When the last of her husbands left her.
(d) When she became a real, thinking person.

3. What is Queen doing when Bride arrives at her house?
(a) Sitting in the sun reading.
(b) Burning her box spring to get the bedbugs out.
(c) Cleaning her rugs by beating them with a rug beater in the yard.
(d) Hanging her laundry.

4. What is the weather like when Booker leaves his family’s home?
(a) Severe storms.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Cloudy.
(d) Rain.

5. What does Rain prefer to be called?
(a) Raisin.
(b) Slinky.
(c) Sue.
(d) Woody.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the age beyond which Queen has not raised any of her children?

2. What kind of people are Steve and Evelyn?

3. Where had Steve and Evelyn first met?

4. What trait of her mother’s does Sylvia Huxley say helped her in prison?

5. How long does Bride stay in her car after she wrecks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

2. How does Rain describe her departure from her mother’s house?

3. How does Booker’s life get turned around from despair back toward hope?

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

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

6. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

7. How does the narrator describe Bride and Booker’s efforts to take care of Queen?

8. What completes the rejuvenation story for Bride and Booker?

9. How did Booker end up studying economics?

10. What are Booker’s family’s Saturday morning conferences like?

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