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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. Where does Booker express himself best?
(a) In music.
(b) In critical theory.
(c) In mathematical formulas.
(d) In academic essays.

2. What does Bride think she is turning into with the changes in her body?
(a) The child she might have had.
(b) A child who could be raised by loving parents.
(c) The brave child she ought to have been.
(d) A scared little black girl.

3. When Booker writes a short journal entry apologizing to Adam, how does he explain his reasoning for having enslaved him to his death?
(a) He says that he was tricked into thinking grief was more real than living.
(b) He says that it gave him an illusion of control.
(c) He says that it let him bear the crushing grief and injustice.
(d) He says that the violence of his emotions needed that protection.

4. What does the narrator say Bride felt about Whiskey?
(a) Disgusted.
(b) Judgmental.
(c) Culture shock.
(d) Puzzled.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Booker injured his arm?

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

3. How does Booker describe his family?

4. When does Queen say that she learned it wasn’t enough just to be pretty?

5. What news does Sylvia Huxley get from her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What book does Booker plan to write?

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

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

4. What advice does Queen give Booker after Adam’s funeral?

5. How does the narrator describe Booker’s relationship with Adam?

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

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

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

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

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

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