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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 news does Sweetness get at the end of the book?

2. What does Booker reproach himself with?

3. What is Queen doing when Bride arrives at her house?

4. What does Queen accuse Booker of doing, in regard to Adam?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

2. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

3. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

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

6. What happens when Bride finds Booker?

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

8. What book does Booker plan to write?

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

10. How does the narrator describe Booker’s relationship with Adam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of God Help the Child—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of women in God Help the Child? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Morrison’s depiction of women in this novel?

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