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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 advice does Queen give Booker after Adam’s death?
(a) Not to let go of him until he’s ready.
(b) To stage a ritual to let him go.
(c) To Say the things he needs to say to him.
(d) To let it go and move on.

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

3. When does Booker think he felt freest of Adam’s death?
(a) When he walked in the rain, leaving his family.
(b) When he was playing sports.
(c) When he left Bride.
(d) When he saw Bride in the rain.

4. What news does Sweetness get at the end of the book?
(a) Bride and Booker are getting married.
(b) Bride is going to have a baby.
(c) Bride forgives her for being aloof as a parent.
(d) Queen has died.

5. What does Booker say is the connection between his leaving and his brother’s death?
(a) He says that he found it easier to grieve leaving Bride, like it was easier grieving his brother.
(b) He says that he thought Bride wanted to forgive someone as monstrous as his brother’s murderer.
(c) He says that he couldn't stay with someone who was also carrying so much childhood trauma.
(d) He says that he loved her too much to watch herself give her love away the way he had been giving his love away grieving his brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Steve and Evelyn cook for Bride?

3. What does Bride pick up from Mr. Ponti?

4. What is Bride alarmed by when she stops for food on the way to Whiskey?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe Bride’s distress when she discovers that her breasts have been erased?

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

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

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

7. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

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

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

10. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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