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Who said, "Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all" (194)?
Sethe
Who said, “I can’t live here. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I can’t live here. Nobody speaks to us. Nobody comes by. Boys don’t like me. Girls don’t either” (17)?
Denver
Who says, "You never told me all what happened. Just that they whipped you and you run off, pregnant" (44)?
Denver
The first sentence of Part 1 is, "124 was spiteful" (3).
What is spite?
a desire to hurt, cause harm, or see others suffer
What does it mean for a liquid to be described as roiling?
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
Who said, “Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you ‘fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out” (55)?
Paul D
Who said, "It's gonna hurt, now...Anything dead coming back to life hurts" (42)?
Amy Denver
Who said, “It ain't my job to know what's worse. It's my job to know what is and to keep them away from what I know is terrible. I did that” (194)?
Sethe
What vocab word means "a dense growth of trees, shrubs, or bushes"?
Copse
Denver tells Paul D that the ghost is neither evil nor sad. According to Denver, the ghost is "Rebuked. Lonely and rebuked" (16).
What does rebuked mean?
reprimanded; chastised; criticized; scolded; disapproved of
Who said, "The dark, dark liver—love it, love it, and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air" (104)?
Baby Suggs
Who said, “She don't love me like I love her. I don't love nobody but her” (137)?
Beloved
Who said, “I didn't just make her acquaintance a few months ago. I been knowing her a long time. And I can tell you for sure: this ain't her mouth. May look like it, but it ain't” (185)?
Paul D
What word means "providing no shelter or sustenance; deserted; left in ruins" when it's describing a place, and "inconsolable; joyless" when it's describing a person?
Desolated
Which vocab word means "lacking or deprived of something; suffering a great loss"?
Bereft
Who said, "Can't nothing heal without pain, you know" (92)?
Amy Denver
Who said, "We baked, fried and stewed everything God put down here. Everybody came. Everybody stuffed. Cooked so much there wasn't a stick of kindlin left for the next day" (184)?
Stamp Paid
Who said, “She is the one. She is the one I need. You can go but she is the one I have to have” (89)?
Beloved
"Like the unshriven dead, zombies on the loose, holding the chains in their hands, they trusted the rain and the dark, yes, but mostly Hi Man and each other" (130).
What does unshriven mean?
unconfessed; unabsolved of sins
If someone is described as indolent, it means they are...
disinclined to work or exertion
Who said, "Anything you need, let us know...We don't hold with slavery, even Garner's kind" (171).
Ms. Bodwin
Who said, “Hard to say. If anybody was to ask me I'd say, ‘Don't love nothing’” (108)?
Ella
Who said, “Tell em, Jenny. You live any better on any place before mine?” (171).
Mr. Garner
What does riven mean?
violently torn or ripped apart
"For a month or so in the winter any stray man had work, if he could breathe the stench of offal and stand up for twelve hours, skills in which Paul D was admirably trained" (181-182).
What is offal?
viscera (soft internal organs) and trimmings of a butchered animal