Characters
"Solid, rumbling, likely to erupt without prior notice," this character "kept each member of his family awkward with fear."
Who is Macon Dead?
"Town maps registered the street as Main Avenue, but the only colored doctor in the city had lived and died" on this street.
What is Not Doctor Street?
Ruth "dropped her covered peck basket," spilling these symbolic objects. "The wind blew them about, up, down, and into small mounds of snow. Her half-grown daughters scrambled about trying to catch them, while their mother moaned and held the underside of her stomach."
What are rose petals?
"No. Not like no riverboat pilot. Like a Christ-killing _____. You can't get much worse than that for a name. And a baby girl at that."
What is Pilate?
This is the color of Mr. Smith's wings.
What is blue?
This character's "giggle was soft but his teeth strengthened its impact. A born flunky, he loved gossip and the telling of it."
Who is Freddie?
Morrison describes this place as "clear in his mind: the well, the apple orchard, President Lincoln; her foal, Mary Todd; Ulysses S. Grant, their cow; General Lee, their hog."
What is Lincoln's Heaven?
Ruth describes this symbol "Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that her world was still there; that this was life and not a dream."
What is the watermark on the table?
"The man felt sorry for it and picked it up and put it in his basket and took it home...Then one day" this biblical reference "turned around and bit him."
What is a snake?
Ruth desires this "in late afternoon, before her husband closed his office and came home, called her son to her."
What is to nurse her son, Milkman?
This character "wins things. She ain't ever lost nothing."
Who is Reba?
"Freddie carried his discovery not only into the homes in Ruth's neighborhood, but to" this area, "where he lived and where Macon Dead owned rent houses."
What is Southside?
Macon takes his family to go see this symbolic location during his Sunday drives, as a symbol of upward mobility and capitalistic investment?
What is the beach community?
"Perhaps the young girls holding baskets of flowers were two of his ______."
What are virgins?
"First Corinthians pulled her fingers through her hair. It was long, lightweight hair," and the color of these 2 words (adjective + noun).
What is wet sand?
Macon Dead speaks to this person, demanding "Why can't you dress like a woman?"
Who is Pilate?
"In peeling gold letters arranged in a semicircle, his business establishment was declared to be" what name?
What is Sonny's Shop?
"Other than the bright and roving eyes of Magdalene called Lena and First Corinthians," this symbolic object "had no real lived life at all."
What is the Packard?
This character is named after the Biblical daughter-in-law who says "where you go, I will go."
Who is Ruth?
"Your rent is ____ a month, Mrs. Bains. You two months behind already."
What is four dollars?
This character is the "finest general I ever knew."
Who is General Lee?
First Corinthians and Magdalena work at this department store.
What is Gerhardt's Department Store?
Reba wins this prize when she goes to Sears to look for this household appliance (2 part answer).
What is a diamond ring and a toilet?
In the Bible, this woman serves as Abram/Abraham's concubine.
Who is Hagar?
The original Macon Dead gets his start working in this town for white folks.
What is Danville, Pennsylvania?