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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 say she did after Bride’s visit?

2. What did Sweetness nearly do to Lula Ann?

3. When does Bride notice that her pubic hair is gone?

4. What does Sylvia Huxley say her status was, in the prison?

5. How does Bride describe herself after the beating?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bride react to the changes her body is experiencing?

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

4. Why does Sweetness say she treated Bride the way she did?

5. What caused Julie to try to kill herself?

6. What effect does Bride’s testimony have on her relationship with her mother?

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

8. What kind of friend is Brooklyn?

9. What is Brooklyn’s reaction when Bride tells her the whole story of the beating she got from Sylvia Huxley?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research the national statistics regarding child abuse or racist violence in America. How accurately does Toni Morrison represent this issue and the related issues? What are the advantages and disadvantages of addressing these issues in fiction?

Essay Topic 2

What topics would you like to research further, after reading God Help the Child? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on God Help the Child.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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