Sugar's forbidden friend.
Who is Billy?
The game that Sugar and Billy often play.
What is Pirates?
The year slavery was abolished.
What is 1865?
Who is Barack Obama?
The month during which Black History Month is celebrated.
What is February?
The US State in which the book takes place.
What is Louisiana?
The first secret that Sugar had to keep.
What is her mother's illness?
Rosa Parks refused to do this in 1955.
What is give up her seat on a bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
He gave the iconic speech that included the words "I have a dream."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Three African countries.
What are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau. Kenya, the Kingdom of Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Kingdom of Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe?
The newcomers to River Road.
Who are the Chinamen?
The friend that leaves Sugar and the plantation to go up North.
Who is Lizzie?
The Amendment in the Constitution that abolished slavery.
Nelson Mandela was president of this country.
What is South Africa?
The network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to the free U.S. or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
He threatens Mister and Missus Beale to keep Sugar in check.
Who is Mister Wills?
The man that reminds Sugar of Mister Beale.
Who is Master Liu?
The Jim Crow laws.
What are laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
The first black woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
The stories that Sugar enjoys listening to by Mister Beale.
What is Br'er Rabbit?
The food that the River Road folks and the Chinamen share.
What is corn bread and rice?
The Supreme Court Case that established that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Queen Nefertari was queen of this country.
What is Egypt?
Three Caribbean islands.
What are Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago + more?