Characters
The main character
Who is Edana (Dana) Franklin?
The name of the plantation
Weylin Plantation
The catalyst that sends the protagonist into the past
What is when Rufus is in trouble/duress?
Describe the main character
Who is
The way the main character loses her arm
What is traveling back to the future when Rufus has a hold of her wrist?
The main character's husband
Who is Kevin Franklin?
The state where the main character lives
What is California?
The number of years the protagonist's husband is left in the past
What is 5 years?
List two details about the protagonist's husband
What is a progressive, liberal, middle-aged white man who defies convention and the disapproval of his family to marry the Black woman he loves.
(Answers may vary!!!)
Name the protagonist's female ancestor, and one of her major life events
Who is Alice? What is being sold to Rufus and losing her freedom?
(Answers may vary!)
The main character's two ancestors
Who is Rufus and Alice?
The state the main character travels to
Maryland
The amount of times the protagonist travels back in time
7 times
List three important character details connected with the plantation owner
(Answers may vary, and that's okay!)
The name of the slave that tries to escape, and the consequences of his actions
Who is Isaac? And what is cutting off Isaac's ears and selling him off to a slave trader?
The main character and her husband's occupation
What is a writer?
The time period the main character travels to
What is the early 1800s?
Describe the plantation owner's son
(Who is Rufus?) Who is a white, red-headed slave owner in Antebellum Maryland, and Dana’s ancestor? Who is a product of his time and culture, becoming harsher, more selfish, and crueler as the years go by and he is more immersed in the patriarchal slave-holding culture of the South?
(Answers may vary!)
The three characters that die and the reasons for their deaths
1) Who is Tom Weylin? - What is died from a sudden heart attack, which Rufus blamed on Dana
2) Who is Alice Greenwood? - What is hung herself after Rufus took her babies to scare her?
3) Who is Rufus Weylin? What is stabbed by Dana with a knife after trying to rape her?
The couple that runs the plantation
Who are Tom Weylin and Margaret Weylin?
What is 1976?