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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 Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?
2. What does Bride say she wants to do to help her healing?
3. What was Julie serving time for?
4. What is the last thing Bride remembers saying before Sylvia Huxley beats her?
5. Where does Bride say Sylvia Huxley’s husband is?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Sweetness say she told Lula Ann to call her Sweetness instead of Mama?
2. What happens when Brooklyn tries to seduce Booker?
3. What kind of friend is Brooklyn?
4. What sensation does Booker’s shaving brush give Bride?
5. How does Bride react to the changes her body is experiencing?
6. Where does Sylvia Huxley say she found a refuge from prison life?
7. What does Sylvia Huxley say made Decagon better than Brookhaven?
8. What is Bride’s feeling about what she needs to do, to heal herself, and how does Brooklyn respond?
9. How does Bride say she was different from her friends, in terms of how they treated their boyfriends?
10. What does Bride find when she stars going through Booker’s possessions at her house?
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
When is God Help the Child most itself? What is its characteristic passage or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
How would you rewrite God Help the Child, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.
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