This is the city where both Weses lived. (I googled it, and according to grammargirl.com, you add an "es" to make it plural, but I'm having my doubts.)
What is Baltimore?
100
This is what killed Wes' father.
What is swelling of the throat?
100
This is what caused Mary to have to drop out of college.
What is losing her Pell grant?
100
This is the device used when the story goes back in time to give us information about Wes' mother's immigration to America, her abusive first marriage, and how she met Wes' father.
What is flashback?
200
This is the character the other Wes seemed to love the most.
Who is his grandmother?
200
The details about this event help place the time period of Mary's younger days.
What is the rioting after MLK's assassination?
200
It's the two reasons that Mary's relationship with the other Wes' father didn't work out?
What are his excessive drinking and lack of working?
200
This caused Wes' mother to react emotionally when three year old Wes punched his sister.
What is her abusive first marriage?
200
An example of this device is this: "It was like standing in a field when a powerful gust of wind suddenly blows: everything around you vanishes."
What is simile?
300
This is the other Wes' father.
Who is Bernard?
300
It was here that it really hit Kenneth that Alma had died.
What is her funeral?
300
In prison, the other Wes asks Wes this question.
What is, how did growing up without a father affect you?
300
The death of Wes' father had this effect on Nikki's biological father.
What is discontinue financially supporting Nikki and discontinue communicating with her at all?
300
An example of this device is when the author says Kenneth also fought the demons of alcoholism.
What is metaphor?
400
She lost her mother shortly after becoming a mother herself.
Who is Alma?
400
It was here that the other Wes met his father for the first time.
What is his grandmother's house?
400
The other Wes' grandmother has this under the kitchen sink.
What is a pet rabbit?
400
The author infers that this caused motherhood to be "exceptionally daunting" for Mary.
What is her young age?
400
This literary device is used here: "Years would pass before I understood how that blow connected to my mom's past."
What is foreshadowing or building suspense?
500
This is Wes' mother.
Who is Joy?
500
This is the year in which the events from chapter 1 occur.
What is 1982?
500
This is the school that the other Wes' mother attended for a short time.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
500
Learning of her husband's death had this effect on Wes' mother.
What is passing out?
500
When the author says Mary was doing what she always did to blow off steam or just kill boredom, he's using this type of language.