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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. When does Booker think he felt freest of Adam’s death?

2. What is the age beyond which Queen has not raised any of her children?

3. What does Booker do to change his mindset after Adam’s funeral?

4. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?

5. What was Adam doing the last time Booker saw him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

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

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

4. How does the narrator describe Booker’s moment of self-realization?

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

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

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

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

9. What books does Booker read while Bride is at work?

10. What happens when Bride and Booker go to Queen’s house after their reconciliation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending God Help the Child. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in God Help the Child. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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