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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 color are Rain’s eyes?

2. What turned Booker’s life around, after he leaves his family?

3. What do Steve and Evelyn cook for Bride?

4. How does Bride say Steve and Evelyn treated her?

5. When does Bride discover that her breasts have been erased?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What alarming discovery does Bride make in the restroom on her way to Whiskey, CA?

4. What precipitates Booker’s departure from his family home?

5. How does Booker’s life get turned around from despair back toward hope?

6. How does the narrator describe Bride’s distress when she discovers that her breasts have been erased?

7. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

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

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

10. What is the importance of Bride saying she felt ‘colonized’ by Booker?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Would you recommend God Help the Child? For what purposes would you recommend God Help the Child, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

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