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

2. What tradition does Booker’s family keep up?

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

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

5. How does Bride say Booker made her feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Queen give Booker after Adam’s funeral?

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

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

4. How does Bride end up at Steve and Evelyn’s house with Rain?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of God Help the Child. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

What is the meaning of the title of this book, and how is that meaning developed throughout the unfolding of the plot? What alternative titles would have expressed the contents of the book better than God Help the Child? Analyze the importance of the epigram, from Luke. In what ways are children coming to God throughout this novel?

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