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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Bride’s relationship with You, Girl?
2. How does Booker describe Bride’s skin color?
3. What does Bride say she did not know about Booker?
4. What caused Julie to try to kill herself?
5. What does Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Bride’s state of mind as she is healing from the beating Sylvia Huxley gave her?
2. How does Sylvia Huxley react to Bride’s visit?
3. What does skin color mean in Sweetness’ family?
4. What sensation does Booker’s shaving brush give Bride?
5. In a number of places, Bride says that she feels ‘erased.’ What is the importance of this feeling, in God Help the Child?
6. What kind of gesture does Bride make to Sylvia Huxley, and why does it go so wrong?
7. What effect does Bride’s testimony have on her relationship with her mother?
8. What does Lula Ann’s dark skin mean to her mother?
9. Why does Sweetness say she treated Bride the way she did?
10. Why does Sweetness say she told Lula Ann to call her Sweetness instead of Mama?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would you recommend God Help the Child? For what purposes would you recommend God Help the Child, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate God Help the Child as a book about race and prejudices surrounding skin color. What are its strengths and weaknesses as a book about this theme? Does the book advance an agenda? Does it not advance an agenda enough?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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