Setting
What is Chicago?
The color of ink Clare uses to write her letter to Irene.
What is purple?
Clare's behavior that makes Irene notice her at the hotel.
What is staring at Irene?
The job Clare's father had.
What is a janitor?
The city in which Irene lives (where she is when she receives Clare's letter).
What is New York City?
The animal to which Irene compares Clare.
What is a cat? (catlike)
Before she recognizes Clare, the reason Irene thinks this woman might be staring at her.
What is she might realize that Irene is Black in a white-only space?
The reason Clare first passes as white.
What is her white aunts make her pass after they take her in.
The decade in which Passing is set.
What is the 1920's?
The reason why Irene can't get in touch with Clare in New York.
What is the letter has no return address?
How long it's been since Irene and Clare have seen each other (correct answer within 3 years).
What is twelve years?
How Irene's family found out that Clare had disappeared from her aunts' house.
Irene's father went to see the aunts to see how Clare was doing.
The reason Clare is writing to Irene.
What is she wants to see Irene again?
The reason Irene says that she has never thought of "passing."
What is she has everything she wants?
How Clare escapes from her aunts' house.
She runs away to marry a rich man on her 18th birthday.
The thing Clare mentions in her letter that makes Irene feel "humiliation, resentment, and rage" (3).
What is "that time in Chicago"?
At the end of Chapter 2, the decision Irene makes about seeing Clare again.
What is "She was through with Clare Kendry" (21).
A key difference between Irene & Clare's childhoods.
What is Irene's family had more money, OR Irene had a loving and supportive father, OR Irene felt fully part of their community while Clare did not.