Morrison Biography
Name 1 award the novel won
Ex. Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, NY Times Best Seller, Presidential Medal of Freedom ...
"I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms."
Who is Sethe?
Amy Denver is going to this city to purchase velvet
Where is Boston?
This woman played Sethe in the 1998 film adaptation
Who is Oprah?
Beloved's name comes from what?
What is her gravestone?
The year Beloved was published
When was 1987?
"You your own best thing Sethe. You are" (Morrison 322).
Who is Paul D?
Sethe, Paul D, and Denver come home from what to find human Beloved at their house
What is the circus?
This woman was Morrison's inspiration for Sethe's crime
Who is Margaret Garner?
The character Denver (Sethe's daughter) is named after
Who is Amy Denver?
Toni Morrison's birth name
Who was Chloe Anthony Wofford?
"These hands belong to me. These my hands."
Who is Baby Suggs?
Denver is born alongside this body of water
What is the Ohio River?
What type of tree is said to resemble Sethe's back scar
What is a chokecherry tree?
Halle bought this person's freedom
Who is Baby Suggs?
Toni Morrison was the first ____ to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
What is African American?
"Anything dead coming back to life hurts."
Who is Amy Denver?
The novel's setting/time period
What is the Antebellum South?
The name of Sixo's "lover"
Who is the Thirty-Mile woman?
The names of Sethe's 2 sons
Who are Buglar and Howard?
Toni Morrison's high school
What is Lorraine High School?
"White people believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle."
Who is Stamp Paid?
The state in which Paul D was held a prisoner
Where is Georgia?
What is carmine?
The # of children Baby Suggs had, coming from 6 different men
Who are 8 children?