Short Stories
What class does the narrator of Sonny's Blues teach?
Algebra
Roosters
What is a memoir?
A memoir is a narrative, written from the perspective of the author, about an important part of their life.
What is Jeannette doing when she sees Mom on the streets of New York City?
Sitting in a taxi
Comedian and writer Trevor Noah is from this country
South Africa
In Two Kinds, what does the narrator's mother want her to be?
A pianist/a genius/a prodigy
What is the name of the Walt Whitman poem we read?
Manhattan's Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering.
Give character to the narrator and decides how the story will be told
Voice and POV
What does Dad call moving towns in the middle of the night?
Doing the skedaddle
The title Repeat After Me is inspired by these two things
The author's sister's parrot and the author's need to tell other people's stories
This symbolizes at the end of Sonny's Blues that things have not been all resolved
Cup of trembling
What words are repeated in All the Tired Horses in the Sun?
Forever and ever and ever and ever
Makes sure that readers can picture scenes almost like a movie in their mind
Description and detail
How much is Mom’s oil-rich property in Texas likely worth?
A million dollars
Trevor Noah was "Born a Crime" because of this
Interracial relationships were illegal when he was born
What gift did the narrator's mother leave her at the end of Two Kinds?
Her piano
The mother in "Mother to Son" compares life to this
Crystal stair
Memoirs are not autobiographies because they focus on
A life experience
What does Dad show Jeannette before she leaves Welch?
Blue prints for the glass castle
What did the narrator's parents expect him and his sister to be when they were older?
A failure and a success
According to the narrator's mother in Two Kinds, there are only two kinds of daughters. What are they?
Those who are obedient, and those who follow their own mind
What indigenous nation is the poet of All the Tired Horses in the Sun a part of?
Creek nation
Provides characterization and moves the story along
Dialogue
Which “star” does Jeannette pick out as her Christmas gift?
Venus
What indigenous nation is Trevor Noah's mother a part of?
Xhosa