Shorty and the Quarter
What is an elevator operator?
The location of the fight
What is the hospital basement?
The novel Wright is best known for
What is Black Boy?
Shorty needed the quarter for this reason.
What is lunch?
The thing Wright indirectly compares Brand and Cooke to
What are animals?
The dollar amount Richard accumulated to move from his hometown
What is $100?
This is the location of the scene.
What is the elevator?
The symbol the devocalized dogs represent
What is silent suffering?
The state Wright was born
What is Mississippi?
Shorty’s willingness to bend over and be kicked symbolizes this social system faced by Black individuals in Wright's time.
What is Jim Crow?
Subject that started the fight
What is the weather?
The age Wright published his first short story
What is 16?
Richard describes Shorty as this when he is in the presence of whites.
What is a clown?
One of the newspapers the men read
What is the Tribune (Cooke) or the Herald-Examiner (Brand)?
The occupations of Wright's parents
What is sharecropper (father) and school teacher (mother)?