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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. When Booker writes a short journal entry apologizing to Adam, how does he explain his reasoning for having enslaved him to his death?

2. What is the title Booker imagines for his book?

3. Why did Rain leave her mother’s house?

4. How does Booker describe the atmosphere in his family’s house after Adam’s funeral?

5. Who does Queen say Booker must have been talking to, with his writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What book does Booker plan to write?

2. How did Booker end up studying economics?

3. What is Bride’s impression of Steve and Evelyn’s house?

4. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

5. What completes the rejuvenation story for Bride and Booker?

6. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

7. How does Bride end up at Steve and Evelyn’s house with Rain?

8. How does Rain describe her departure from her mother’s house?

9. What does Queen say was Booker’s problem in how he dealt with Adam’s death?

10. What common thread does the narrator say Bride sees in Booker dumping her and in Sylvia Huxley beating her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

In what ways is God Help the Child relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book that describe its contemporary relevance.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in God Help the Child. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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