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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. How does Booker take notes in class?

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

3. What news does Sweetness get at the end of the book?

4. What is the title Booker imagines for his book?

5. What kind of new product does Bride envision on her way to see Booker?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bride meets Queen?

2. How do Steven and Evelyn describe finding Rain?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Queen say was Booker’s problem in how he dealt with Adam’s death?

10. What does Brooklyn feel about Bride’s disappearance to deal with her past?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate God Help the Child as a book about race and prejudices surrounding skin color. What are its strengths and weaknesses as a book about this theme? Does the book advance an agenda? Does it not advance an agenda enough?

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