Plot
Characters
Background
Theme
Tone/Mood
100
What causes Lily to run away from her house?
What is Rosaleen being in jail and she wanted to learn more about her mother.
100
Who never gave up on trying to get June to marry them?
What is Neil.
100
What is the time period that this occurred?
What is 1964.
100
What is the first theme that we are presented with?
What is yearning for a mother.
100
What is the mood at the beginning of the book and what's it like at the end?
What is the mood at the beginning was tense, unwelcoming, just overall bad. At the end it was almost the exact opposite.
200
When Lily arrives what is the order that she meets the Boatwright sisters?
What is June, May, then August.
200
Who was named June?
What is Rosaleen.
200
How does the Civil Rights Movement tie into this?
What is Rosaleen, the Boatwrights, and the Daughters of Mary are all black. They should be allowed to go to more places and do more things, but it's not happening.
200
The reason that June doesn't want Lily in their home is because of skin color which is a theme of...
What is racism/prejudice.
300
Who made the first move on a kiss and did they?
What is Lily in the truck.
300
Who told Lily that she shouldn't be staying in a colored home?
What is the police officer that questioned Lily at the Boatwright house.
300
If the story was set in the northern states, how would it have been different?
What is Lily wouldn't feel scared to go with blacks as much as she did in the south.
300
August can fall under two themes about primarily women which are..
What is mothers and Black Mary/ female power
400
What did August tell Lily about forgiveness? "People would rather..."
What is die than forgive.
400
What is the name of the first lady that Lily meets that is part of the Daughters of Mary?
What is Queenie
400
Out of Deborah's box of things that August gave Lily, which two can be seen as a theme.
What is whale pin and the photograph of Lily when she was younger, alongside her mother.
500
T.Ray tells Lily at the end that who actually killed Deborah?
What is Lily killed her mother.
500
What was the name of Mr. Clayton Forrest's secretary?
What is Miss Lacy
500
Lily having illusions on things all the time is an example of what theme?
What is appearances vs. reality.
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