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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 term does Booker use for the pedophile he has just beaten up?
(a) ‘The nicest man in the world.’
(b) ‘The worst of the worst.’
(c) ‘The scum of the earth.’
(d) ‘The devil.’

2. What is the African ritual Booker thinks of for punishing the man who killed his brother?
(a) Murdering a member of the murderer’s family in retribution.
(b) Burying the murderer up to his neck in the sand and letting ants eat him.
(c) Tying the dead man to the murderer’s back.
(d) Dismembering the murderer and feeding him to the crocodiles.

3. What did Adam’s killer do for a living?
(a) Bible salesman.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Librarian.

4. What turned Booker’s life around, after he leaves his family?
(a) Breaking up with Felicity.
(b) Returning to school.
(c) An inheritance from Mr. Drew.
(d) Beating up the crack smoking couple.

5. What causes Bride to take off her shirt, revealing her newly returned breasts?
(a) A leak in her Jaguar’s top.
(b) Jubilation for feeling them return.
(c) Blood coming from Booker’s arm.
(d) The fire that flares up in Queen’s hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?

2. Where had Steve and Evelyn first met?

3. How does Bride say she felt while she was waiting for help?

4. What personal trait does Brooklyn claim to have, that justifies her feelings?

5. How does Booker take notes in class?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Queen say was Booker’s problem in how he dealt with Adam’s death?

3. How did Booker end up studying economics?

4. What is Bride’s impression of Steve and Evelyn’s house?

5. Why is Booker beating a man up, at the beginning of Chapter 14?

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

7. How does the narrator describe the town of Whiskey, CA?

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

9. What does Brooklyn feel about Bride’s disappearance to deal with her past?

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

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