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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. Bride says that Booker doesn’t have to love her but he does have to do what?

2. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the only pleasure she had ever had?

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

4. What news does Sweetness get at the end of the book?

5. What does Bride say Sylvia Huxley’s beating confirmed for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bride finds Booker?

2. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

4. What do Bride and Booker do when Bride wakes up?

5. What are Booker’s family’s Saturday morning conferences like?

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

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

8. How does the narrator describe Bride and Booker’s efforts to take care of Queen?

9. How does the narrator describe the town of Whiskey, CA?

10. Why is Booker beating a man up, at the beginning of Chapter 14?

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

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

Write an evaluative review of God Help the Child. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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