MEAN STREET
PRINCIPLE BEAUTY
MODEL BEHAVIOR
SERVANTS QUARTERS
ORIGINAL DIME
100
"Red and white gumdrops in a red and white box (mint flavored the white ones; strawberry flavored the red)."
What are Valerians, the candies named for Valerian.
100
A closet boozer
What does Valerian think is Margarette's problem?
100
"I might have died. That mess was up to my knees. Just drive will you..."
What did Jadine say to Son after she fell in the tar pit.
100
Sleeping back to back. The man without pajama tops in deference to the heat; his wife up to her neck in percale to defy it.
Who are Sydney and Ondine Childs?
100
"This is a town? It looks like a city block. In Queens." "Hush up...This not only a town, it's the county seat."
What is Eloe, Son's home town.
200
"I HAVE NO INTENTION OF STAYING ALIVE JUST TO SKIP DOWN STAIRS TO A CUP OF POSTUM EVERY MORNING."
What did VALERIAN SAY TO SIDNEY WHEN SIDNEY TRIED TO TELL HIM THAT HEALTH WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AT THEIR AGE.
200
"You should guide the servants, not consort with them."
What did Valerian say to Margarette to stop her from being friends with Ondine?
200
A cover made of animals, sent to prove love and draw her back to Paris.
What is the seal skin coat?
200
Jadine, a girl has go to be a daughter first...and if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't learn how to be a woman.'
What advice did Ondine give to Jadine?
200
It's Bullshit, Jadine..."
What did Son think of a college education?
300
"There on a float...bride of a polar bear...all red and white."
Where did Valerian first see Margaret?
300
The salad spoon and fork...
What did Margarette leave on the table during dinner that made Valerian angry.
300
Regal to some, but scary and confusing to Jade. Made her runaway to a rich pushover.
Who is the woman in the canary yellow dress?
300
"He was going to send me a wig, he said... "looks like he did" "Therese said you killed him" "Tell Therese, she killed him" "Bye, Mary" "Alma...my name is Alma Estee."
What is the last conversation Jade had with anyone on the island before she boarded the plane headed back to France? ( or what are the last words spoken between Jade and the youngest "Mary")
300
"But I don't do no windows."
What is the first thing Son said to Valerian the day after he was found in Margarette's closet?
400
"Relaxes a little, drinks a bit, reads, listens to records, and waits to greet death..."
What does Valerian do in the greenhouse?
400
But the hair bothered him...He looked at little Margarette's hair the color of saffron and remembered his great aunts from Buffalo and begged them to pay a visit.
What did Margarette's father do to convince himself and everyone else that red hair ran in his family?
400
"I don't want to learn how to be the kind of woman you're talking about because don't want to be that kind of woman."
What did Jade say to Ondine when Ondine tried to talk with her about what a "real woman" is.
400
I am a Philadelphia Negro mentioned in the book of the very same name. My people owned drugstores and taught school while yours was still cutting their faces open to be able to tell one of you you from the other."
What did Sidney say to Son after he was found in Margaret's closet?
400
"Once upon a time there was a farmer--a white farmer...and he had this bullshit...farm and a rabbit came along and ate his...cabbages...so he got this great idea about how to get him. How to, to trap...this rabbit...and you know what he did? He made him a tar baby."
What is Son's version of the tar baby story? (told to Jade.
500
All he could say was that he did not know. He was guilty, therefore, of innocence. Was there anything more loathsome as a willfully innocent man? Hardly, An innocent man is a sin before God. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind..."
What did Valerian think to himself after he first learned the Margarette had abused their son when he was a baby?
500
Like a pincushion or an ashtray.
How did Margarette treat her son Michael when he was a baby?
500
They were all there, crowding into the room. He fell asleep and didn't see them in the room. She felt them nudging each other for a better look at her...they stood around the room, revealing one breast, and then two.
Who were the night woman?
500
Gideon, Therese, and Alma
What were the real names of Yardman and the Marys?
500
"San Francisco gave it to me for cleaning a tub of sheephead...wish you could have seen how it looked..."
What is Son's "original dime" and where did he get it?
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