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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 compare her six-month relationship with Booker to?

2. What does Bride say she did not know about Booker?

3. Where does Sylvia Huxley find her next job?

4. What advice does Bride remember Jeri giving her about make up?

5. What is the weather like, the day after Booker leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sweetness say she told Lula Ann to call her Sweetness instead of Mama?

2. Where does Sylvia Huxley say she found a refuge from prison life?

3. What does Sylvia Huxley say made Decagon better than Brookhaven?

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

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

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

7. What kind of image advice does Jeri give Bride?

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

9. What benefits does Sweetness say she enjoyed because of her light skin?

10. How does Bride say she was different from her friends, in terms of how they treated their boyfriends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending God Help the Child. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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

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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