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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 causes Booker to jump and say ‘I love you, I love you’ to Bride?

2. What does the narrator say Bride felt about Whiskey?

3. What advice does Queen give Booker after Adam’s death?

4. How many other boys had the killer killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

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

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

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

6. How do Bride and Booker’s opinions about race differ?

7. What does Brooklyn feel about Bride’s disappearance to deal with her past?

8. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?

9. What book does Booker plan to write?

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

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

What topics would you like to research further, after reading God Help the Child? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on God Help the Child.

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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