Terms and Vocabulary
Language Analysis (Provide the Original Word or Meaning)
Character Motives
Reading Questions I
Reading Questions II
100

A pecan candy treat.

What is praline.

100

y'all 

What is "you all"?

100

He is the only resident of Marshall who stood up to fix in the past.

Who is Mathu?

100

Turnip greens

What is Gran Mon cooking in the opening chapter?

100
She knows she is lying.

What does Miss Merle think of Candy's confession?

200

The point of view from which a narrative it told (e.g., first person, etc.).

What is perspective?

200

teef

What is "teeth"?

200

She is trying to protect a man and a community that helped to raise her and whom she loves.

Who is Candy?

200

To tell the old men of Marshall to gather at Mathu's house.

What is the news that Candy wants Snookum to spread?

200

She believes that their tractors are tearing up her family's land.

What does Bea think about the Cajuns and their use of her family's land?

300

The process of forming a complex and combined language that is separate and passed through generations.

What is creolization?

300

'cause

What is "because"?

300
He wanted to save the cane fields.

Who was Dirty Red?

300

Fix

Who is coming now that Beau is dead, according to Janey?

300

Calvin Harrison who played halfback and Gilbert Boutan who played fullback at LSU?

Who were Salt and Pepper?

400

"a member of any of the largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana formed by descendants of French Canadians, specaking an archaic form of French (OED)."

What is a cajun?

400
bitty

What is "small"?

400

His brother, Silas, was the last sharecropper, and Cajuns beat him for being good at sharecropping.

Who was Tucker?

400

That she killed Beau Boutan.

What does Candy confess?

400

A late-night television show that depicted fantastical or horror story lines and a Flemish artist who depicted humans with bulging eyes that stared off into the distance. Sully associates both of these with the scene at Marshall Plantation.

What was the Twilight Zone and Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

500

The 1896 case, arising over the desegregation of railroad cars in Louisiana. The Supreme Court case resulted in the social practice of "separate but equal."

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?

500
yonder

What is "over there in the distance"?

500

She was upset that Beau leased the plantation, where her ancestors had worked as slaves.

Who is Cherry?

500

She drove recklessly to the quarters and told Janey to pray.

How does Miss Merle react to receiving the news of Beau's death from Janey?

500

That all surviving participants are on probation and cannot carry weapons for a period.

What is the verdict of the final trial?