From the Text (1)
How old is Rosaleen?
What is she is not sure?
What is the time period of the novel?
What is 1964?
“... a high pitched zzz that hummed along my skin…”
What is onomatopoeia?
Who is Lily and how old is she?
What is the main character, a white 14-year-old-girl who accidentally killed her mother and runs away to the Boatwright sisters to find out more about her mom?
Who tells the story of Our Lady of Chains?
Why doesn’t Lily touch the heart of the black Mary the first time she reaches out for it?
What is she faints?
“...descended on me like a flock of angels…”
What is simile?
Who is August?
Who first tells Lily about Deborah staying in the honey house?
What is May?
What song does May sing when she gets upset?
What is Oh! Susanna?
“...with her heart on the outside of her chest.”
What is idiom?
Who is June?
June is August's sister. She does not like Lily at first, she teaches, and she plays music. She marries Neil.
How do Rosaleen and Lily find out about the Boatwright sisters?
What is Lily sees the Black Madonna on a honey jar at a gas station?
When Lily calls T. Ray from the lawyer’s office, what question does she ask him?
What is do you know what my favorite color is?
“I stepped into a deserted corridor clogged with too many smells. Carnations, old people, rubbing alcohol, bathroom deodorizer, red Jello.”
What is imagery?
Who is May?
May is April's twin, she copes by visiting the wailing wall, she commits suicide after Zach goes to jail, and she likes bugs. She is simple-minded.
What event caused April to fall into a depression and to take her own life?
What is she faced discrimination at a gas station when she went for ice cream, and she fell into a depression when she realized she would spend the rest of her life being seen as "less than" because of her skin color?
Why does Zach go to jail?
What is he goes to jail for refusing to turn in another black person for throwing a bottle?
Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed. *Though it is a simile, the answer is NOT simile
What is allusion?
Who is Zach?
Zach is a worker on the bee farm. He is a caring black man who Lily likes/has a crush on. He wants to be a lawyer.