Two young black men killed while attempting to rob the store.
Brother and Bear
100
A word that means occurring before war
Antebellum
100
This proclamation abolished slavery in the Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
100
Who wrote the book?
Ernest J. Gaines
200
The store owner who was killed.
Grope
200
An offspring of a Black and a White parent. Starts with an "M"
Mulatto
200
This major event occurred between 1939-1945
World War II
200
When was the book first published?
1993
300
The owner of the plantation that once employed Miss Emma and Tante Lou as cook and housekeeper.
Henri Pichot
300
A literary part of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
Tone
300
CORE sent the first April Freedom Riders into the South to test the 1946 Supreme Court ban on segregated interstate buses. What does CORE stand for?
(The Congress of Racial Equality)
300
What genre is this book?
Fiction
400
Henri Pichot's maid.
Inez
400
What type of narrative is used in the story? (How is the story told?)
First person narrative
400
What president in 1948 signed Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the U.S. armed forces. Six years later (October 1954), integration is officially "completed."
President Harry Truman
400
Where did the author grow up? (state)
Louisiana
500
Grant's former teacher, known in the black community as what nickname?
"the big mulatto from Poulaya."
500
Is the death penalty determined by the state or the nation?
State
500
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed "separate but equal" accommodations for African Americans. What is the court case known as? _______ vs. ________
Plessy vs. Ferguson,
500
What grade read this book before it was moved to the freshmen curriculum?