This person sexually abused Ruth and mistreated his family for years.
Who is Tateh?
100
This person is a constant embarrassment to James.
Who is Ruth?
100
This is the city that Ruth grew up in.
What is Suffolk, Virginia?
100
James is afraid for his mother's safety around a member of this political group.
What is The Black Panther Party?
100
Ruth tells her children that God is this color.
What is "the color of water"?
200
This person sent Ruth to New York after she met Peter and got pregnant.
Who is Mameh?
200
These two men are James' birth father and step-father.
Who are Andrew Dennis McBride & Hunter Jordan?
200
This is the university/college where James attends.
What is Oberlin college?
200
Ruth is disowned by her family for doing this.
What is marrying a black man?
200
This was Tateh's profession before he bought the convenience store in Virginia.
What is a rabbi?
300
This person helped Ruth to get an abortion while she lived in New York.
Who is Aunt Betsy?
300
This sister of James lives in Louisville and takes care of James when he enters his rebellious stage.
Who is Jack?
300
Ruth moves her family to this state after New York became too expensive for her to be a single-mother.
What is Delaware?
300
This political group harassed and murdered both Jews and Blacks in the South during Ruth's childhood.
What is the KKK?
300
Even though she was shunned by her family, Ruth still sends her children to these kinds of schools.
What are Jewish schools?
400
This man tried to make Ruth a prostitute.
Who is Rocky?
400
This man who James meets in Louisville teaches James a lot about not wasting ability before getting stabbed in the neck by a woman.
Who is Chicken Man?
400
Dennis McBride and Ruth met while working here.
What is Ruth's Aunt's leather factory?
400
James' brother Dennis lived a double life: he was a good student and responsible/devoted son but he also secretly participated in this 1960's race-relations-changing event.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
400
Ruth converts to this religion after marrying Dennis.
What is Christianity?
500
This person is Ruth's sister who never forgives her for leaving home.
Who is Dee Dee?
500
This sister of James leaves home at 15 because of a clash of ideas between her and her family.
Who is Helen?
500
Just after Ruth and Dennis discover she is pregnant with her 8th child, Dennis McBride becomes sick and dies from this affliction.
What is lung cancer?
500
This white family is the first group of whites that James gets to know and they eventually sponsor his trip to Europe with the Jazz Band.
Who are the Dawsons?
500
This person was the inspiration for the church that Dennis and Ruth built, as well as their favorite preacher.