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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 Rain say Bride is the first person to do for her?
(a) Protect her with her body.
(b) Hold her and apologize for her experiences.
(c) Take her for a walk to the lake.
(d) Ask permission to show tenderness.

2. How does Bride say Booker made her feel?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Colonized.
(c) Loved.
(d) Tempestuous.

3. How long did it take for authorities to find Adam’s killer?
(a) Nine years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six years.
(d) Three years.

4. What does Queen accuse Booker of doing, in regard to Adam?
(a) Preventing the family from moving on.
(b) Keeping his spirit trapped on earth.
(c) Tying his corpse to his shoulders.
(d) Killing himself so that he can know what it’s like.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Queen give Bride to eat?

2. How has Booker injured his arm?

3. Who is Booker beating at the beginning of chapter 14?

4. What does the narrator say Bride felt about Whiskey?

5. What does Brooklyn feel in response to Bride’s note from Whiskey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

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

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

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

5. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

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

8. What do Bride and Booker do when Bride wakes up?

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

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

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