Vocab I
Vocab II
Characters
Context I
Context II
100
Give a synonym for: callous
What is mean?
100
Give a synonym for: benevolent
What is kind?
100
Who is the woman who raised twelve children?
Who is Ruth, Rachel or Ruchel?
100
Give a synonym for fraught as in "she gave information that was fraught with gossip."
What is filled?
100
What is the color of water?
What/Who is God?
200
Give a synonym for: paranoia "She and my father brought a curious blend of Jewish-European and African-American distrust and paranoia in our house."
What is distrust?
200
Give a synonym for: insight
What is understanding?
200
Who owned a store in Suffolk, VA?
Who is Tateh?
200
When is the only time Ruth cries in public?
What is when she is at church?
200
What was the only thing that Ruth's father was not cheap about?
What is education?
300
Give a synonym for: peripheral
What is outside or distant?
300
Give a synonym for: ambition
What is desire?
300
Who ran away from home when she was 15?
Who is Helen?
300
How does Richie deal with his racial identity? (think superhero!)
What is pretend to be the hulk?
300
Who was Ruth's only childhood friend in Suffolk, VA?
Who is Frances?
400
Give a synonym for: candidness
What is openness?
400
Give a synonym for: ethics
What is rules or morals?
400
Who owned a leather factory where Ruth worked
Who is Aunt Mary?
400
Which topic did Ruth not like to hear about during a religious sermon?
What is politics?
400
What did Ruth say she was starving for when she was a kid?
What is love and affection?
500
Give a synonym for: immaculate
What is clean?
500
Give a synonym for: distraught
What is upset?
500
What incident makes James worry for his mother's life?
What is the milk incident?
500
Which of the following was not a priority to James' mother? school extended family church privacy
What is extended family?
500
The lesson that James learned from Chicken Man was...
What is go to college/don't quit school?
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