While reading this section of the book when Grandma Ife was talking to Sophie about the testing, Sophie asked her why did she test her daughters. Grandma Ife responded and said it was a mothers job to keep her daughters pure. I believe that the way for them to keep their daughters pure in that way wasn’t necessary. You can keep your daughter pure in mind and in heart by growing her up the right way and instilling some discipline in her from young helps her to grow up to be a good person. So the testing to me was foolish. Sophie being tested by her mother really made the situation bad for her because its now a major part of her life and i think that she would not do it to Bridgette because of the experience she had with her mother.