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

2. What is Booker’s central intellectual fascination?
(a) Power.
(b) Race.
(c) Art.
(d) Money.

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

4. Who does Bride say Booker must have been talking about, in his writing?
(a) Her.
(b) Queen.
(c) Adam.
(d) Himself.

5. What news does Sylvia Huxley get from her father?
(a) That she is an aunt.
(b) That her mother died.
(c) That he and her mother have moved.
(d) That her siblings have married.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Queen explain the effect Adam’s death had on Booker’s life?

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

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

4. What color wallpaper does this news from home make Sylvia Huxley think of?

5. What is the weather like when Booker first sets eyes on Bride?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bride endear herself to Rain?

3. What common thread does the narrator say Bride sees in Booker dumping her and in Sylvia Huxley beating her?

4. How does Bride describe the atmosphere in her mother’s house?

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

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

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

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

9. How did Booker end up studying economics?

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

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