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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. Who is Booker beating at the beginning of chapter 14?
2. Who does Booker say has become his only judge?
3. What does Sylvia Huxley say she thanks Bride for?
4. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?
5. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Booker beating a man up, at the beginning of Chapter 14?
2. How does Booker’s life get turned around from despair back toward hope?
3. What is the importance of Bride saying she felt ‘colonized’ by Booker?
4. What happens when Bride meets Queen?
5. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?
6. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?
7. How does the narrator describe the town of Whiskey, CA?
8. What are Booker’s family’s Saturday morning conferences like?
9. How does the narrator describe Bride and Booker’s efforts to take care of Queen?
10. What completes the rejuvenation story for Bride and Booker?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
Based on everything that has happened to Bride and Booker, what do you think the chances are, that their child lives a happy, safe life? Did the cycle of abuse end with Bride and Booker? How do you think the dynamics that affected Bride and Booker will affect their 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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