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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 does Bride say Booker was using her for?

2. What was Sylvia Huxley’s profession before she was imprisoned?

3. How does Bride say Booker typically referred to her?

4. What possessions of Booker’s does Bride keep?

5. Where does Sylvia Huxley find her next job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Booker different from the other relationships Bride has had?

2. How does Sylvia Huxley react to Bride’s visit?

3. In a number of places, Bride says that she feels ‘erased.’ What is the importance of this feeling, in God Help the Child?

4. What does skin color mean in Sweetness’ family?

5. What is Bride’s feeling about what she needs to do, to heal herself, and how does Brooklyn respond?

6. What kind of relationships is Bride accustomed to having with men?

7. What sensation does Booker’s shaving brush give Bride?

8. What is Bride’s state of mind as she is healing from the beating Sylvia Huxley gave her?

9. What does Lula Ann’s dark skin mean to her mother?

10. How is Bride’s mother different after the courtroom than she usually is, in her treatment of Bride?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate God Help the Child as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. How does Bride make the trip back to childhood and then forward again, in a new way? Compare and contrast her different periods of puberty.

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