Characters
What is the author's name?
Jacqueline
Where is Jacqueline born?
Colombus, Ohio
What historical event is going on during the events in Brown Girl Dreaming?
Civil Rights Movement
What is Georgiana's religion?
Jehovah's Witness
What word does Mama not allow the kids to listen to on the radio?
What is the name of Jacqueline's aunt, who dies in the story?
Aunt Kay
In what city does Jacqueline's family experience racism during the Civil Rights Movement firsthand?
Greenville
While living in Greenville, what has Jacqueline up in the middle of the night startled?
Gunnar's coughing
She falls down the stairs
How did Jaqueline's little brother, Roman, get sick?
He got lead poisoning from eating paint off the walls.
What is the name of Jacqueline's second friend, who she becomes jealous of?
Diana
What is the name of the street Maria lives on in New York?
Madison Street
What can we infer Uncle Robert went to jail for?
What is the medical condition of the boy in Jacqueline's neighborhood back in Greenville?
He had a hole in his heart
What is the name of at least one of the two newsletters that Jehovah's Witnesses would pass out?
Watchtower and Awake
Which character is hit by a car and killed?
Uncle Odell
Where is the jail where Uncle Robert is located?
Dannemora
What does Jacqueline describe daywork as?
Odella gets mad when she catches Jacqueline and Maria playing with what kind of candy?
Bubble gum cigarettes
What war does Leftie lose his arm in?
What is the name of the teacher who is a self identified feminist and encourages Jackie's creativity?
Ms. Vivo
What is the predominantly African- American community in Greenville, South Carolina called? (Where the Irby's live)
Nicholtown
Where does Jacqueline's sister like to hide to read?
Under the table, in the kitchen
Which poet does Jacqueline look up to and model her poems after?
Langston Hughes
Why did Jacqueline take her first plane ride?
To visit her dying grandfather