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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bride compare her six-month relationship with Booker to?
(a) Time in a holding cell.
(b) Time in the wilderness.
(c) Time in a carnival.
(d) Time in a hospital.

2. How does Bride respond when Booker tells her that she is not the woman he wants?
(a) She says ‘why do you treat me like that?’
(b) She says ‘then you don’t get me.’
(c) She says ‘neither am I.’
(d) She says ‘but you said you wanted me yesterday.’

3. How does Bride describe her conversations with Booker?
(a) Intimate and flirtatious.
(b) Sarcastic and joking.
(c) Intimate and personal.
(d) Serious and intellectual.

4. What does Sylvia Huxley suspect her family feels about her imprisonment?
(a) She says that she thinks they are glad to be rid of her.
(b) She says that she thinks they are pining for her to get out.
(c) She says that she thinks they want her to come back to Jesus.
(d) She says that she thinks they wish she were dead.

5. What does Bride say Booker was using her for?
(a) Shelter and understanding.
(b) Legal bills and protection.
(c) Money and emotional support.
(d) Money and sex.

6. What describes Bride’s state of mind while she is recovering?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Ennui.
(c) Schadenfreude.
(d) Anomie.

7. Where do Sylvia Huxley and Julie work at the prison?
(a) The sewing shop.
(b) The physical plant.
(c) The grounds keeping crew.
(d) The cafeteria.

8. How does Bride describe herself after the beating?
(a) As a throbbing nerve of pain.
(b) As a fish out of water.
(c) As a whipped puppy.
(d) As a broken-winged bird.

9. Why does Sweetness rejoice in Bride’s accomplishment, in accusing Sylvia Huxley of abuse?
(a) Because it helped Bride live with what she had seen.
(b) Because a little black girl took down a white woman.
(c) Because she kept a corrupt woman from get away with her behavior.
(d) Because it soothed her memories of her own abuse.

10. What percent of Americans does Sweetness think have African blood
(a) 20%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 10%.

11. When Bride confesses the whole story about Sylvia Huxley, what does Brooklyn suggest?
(a) That they throw a party.
(b) That Bride she contact Booker.
(c) That Bride should try to contact Sylvia Huxley again.
(d) That they take a cruise.

12. What does Bride compare Sylvia Huxley to?
(a) A bucking bronco.
(b) A raging alligator.
(c) A runaway train.
(d) A hurricane.

13. What does Sylvia Huxley say was the best part of Decagon?
(a) The library.
(b) The other women.
(c) The food.
(d) The work.

14. What does Bride say will keep her from ever forgetting Sylvia Huxley’s attack?
(a) Her shame.
(b) Her medical bills.
(c) Her paralyzed arm.
(d) Her limp.

15. How much money does Bride give Sylvia Huxley?
(a) $3,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bride remember witnessing out her window as a child?

2. How does Bride say Booker typically referred to her?

3. How does Sylvia Huxley describe life at Decagon?

4. What leads Bride to Mr. Ponti?

5. What is a quadroon?

(see the answer keys)

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