Setting
Town and state where the novel takes place.
Jackson, Mississippi
The middle boy of the Logans.
Christopher John
Stacey is grumpy about this on the first day of school.
Mama is his teacher.
Punishment for criminals involving tethering.
Chain Gang
The lightest element on the periodic table.
Hydrogen
The colour of the fine dust when, with the rain, it turned to mud.
Red
Who are the Laniers?
Another sharecropping family on Granger land.
Why does Mr Morrison get fired from his job?
He beat up some white men.
The decade the American Civil War take place in.
1860s.
A former planet, now degraded to status of 'dwarf planet.'
Pluto
Where Uncle Hammer lives and why?
Chicago, to escape racism.
White lawyer who helps the Logans.
Mr Jamison
An early Christmas present?
A Wool coat for Stacey
Practice by which a landowner collects rent in the form of crops.
Sharecropping.
Monarch in England following Queen Elizabeth I.
James I
Size of the Logon land, and where half of it came from?
400 acres; 200 from Mr Jamison.
Names of two of the three Wallace brothers.
Kaleb, Thurston, Dewberry
How Mr Barnett was killed and by whom.
RW hit him with (the flat side of) an axe.
When did the school year start and end (months) at black schools like The Great Faith Elementary School?
October-March
The longest river in the world.
The Nile.
Exact location of the pearl-handled pistol before it is stolen.
(A Glass case in) Barnett's store, Strawberry.
Big Ma's full name.
Caroline Logan
Where the car keys were thrown by the man who saved TJ.
Granger's flowerbed.
What were the 'Jim Crow Laws'?
Enforced racial segregation, systematised racial discrimination in the South between the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
Pixar's first feature-length movie.
Toy Story (1995)