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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where had Steve and Evelyn first met?
(a) London.
(b) India.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Reed College.

2. How does the narrator say Booker thinks about race?
(a) Darker-skinned people have a harder time than lighter-skinned people.
(b) Skin color is just skin color, not a flaw or a curse.
(c) Skin color is fateful,. in an America built on slavery.
(d) Skin color is a social construct.

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

4. What kind of people are Steve and Evelyn?
(a) Hippies.
(b) Vagrants.
(c) Coal miners.
(d) Loggers.

5. Why did Rain leave her mother’s house?
(a) Because her mother’s clients were sexually abusing her.
(b) Because her mother beat her.
(c) Because her mother was never home.
(d) Because there was never anything to eat there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did it take for authorities to find Adam’s killer?

3. When does Queen say that she learned it wasn’t enough just to be pretty?

4. When Booker writes a short journal entry apologizing to Adam, how does he explain his reasoning for having enslaved him to his death?

5. How does Bride say she felt while she was waiting for help?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What precipitates Booker’s departure from his family home?

3. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

4. What do Bride and Booker do when Bride wakes up?

5. How does the narrator describe Bride and Booker’s efforts to take care of Queen?

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

7. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

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

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

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