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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. Where does Mr. Ponti say Booker is from?
2. When does Queen say that she learned it wasn’t enough just to be pretty?
3. What is the weather like when Booker leaves his family’s home?
4. What did the killer use as ‘bait’ to bring boys to him?
5. What does Queen give Bride to eat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What books does Booker read while Bride is at work?
2. What precipitates Booker’s departure from his family home?
3. What is Bride’s impression of Steve and Evelyn’s house?
4. How does Bride end up at Steve and Evelyn’s house with Rain?
5. Why is Booker beating a man up, at the beginning of Chapter 14?
6. How does the narrator describe Bride’s distress when she discovers that her breasts have been erased?
7. What does Brooklyn feel about Bride’s disappearance to deal with her past?
8. What does Queen say was Booker’s problem in how he dealt with Adam’s death?
9. What are Booker’s family’s Saturday morning conferences like?
10. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of God Help the Child—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the meaning of the title of this book, and how is that meaning developed throughout the unfolding of the plot? What alternative titles would have expressed the contents of the book better than God Help the Child? Analyze the importance of the epigram, from Luke. In what ways are children coming to God throughout this novel?
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