2. What does Bride say is the only thing left for her to do?
(a) Go on a cruise.
(b) Take her product launch public.
(c) Move to another state.
(d) Stand up for herself.

3. When does Booker think he felt freest of Adam’s death?
(a) When he walked in the rain, leaving his family.
(b) When he was playing sports.
(c) When he left Bride.
(d) When he saw Bride in the rain.

4. What does Queen thank Jesus for?
(a) Her gift of second sight.
(b) Her blanket of forgetfulness.
(c) Her insight into people’s hearts.
(d) Her ability to bear grief.

5. How would you characterize Booker’s writing?
(a) Rational.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Erudite.
(d) Raving.

6. How does Booker describe the atmosphere in his family’s house after Adam’s funeral?
(a) Tormented.
(b) Strained.
(c) Loving.
(d) Subdued.

7. What was it that made Booker lonely about his family’s funeral for Adam?
(a) The sparseness.
(b) The indulgence.
(c) The lack of emotion.
(d) The excess.

8. What does Rain say Bride is the first person to do for her?
(a) Hold her and apologize for her experiences.
(b) Ask permission to show tenderness.
(c) Protect her with her body.
(d) Take her for a walk to the lake.

9. What does Booker feel his college classmates’ views stand in the way of?
(a) Redemptive ideas.
(b) Real life.
(c) Morality.
(d) Serious inquiry.

10. What term does Booker use for the pedophile he has just beaten up?
(a) ‘The worst of the worst.’
(b) ‘The nicest man in the world.’
(c) ‘The scum of the earth.’
(d) ‘The devil.’

11. How long does Bride stay with Steve and Evelyn?
(a) One month.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two months.

12. How does Queen explain the effect Adam’s death had on Booker’s life?
(a) She says that Adam’s death became Booker’s life.
(b) She says that Booker had always been afraid to live, but Adam’s death gave him the excuse to retreat from life.
(c) She says that Booker internalized injustice when Adam died.
(d) She says that Booker’s parents gave him too much to grieve, and it warped him.

13. What is Queen doing when Bride arrives at her house?
(a) Hanging her laundry.
(b) Cleaning her rugs by beating them with a rug beater in the yard.
(c) Sitting in the sun reading.
(d) Burning her box spring to get the bedbugs out.

14. Bride says that Booker doesn’t have to love her but he does have to do what?
(a) Respect her.
(b) Give her her adult body back.
(c) Be her friend.
(d) Answer her.

15. How does Bride say Booker made her feel?
(a) Loved.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Colonized.
(d) Tempestuous.