Bardo Residents
Loving "voice" for Litzie Wright
Mr. Francis Hodge
Thing described as "noxious" and "dreaded"
The iron fence
This person states their intention to "live correctly."
Gilbert to Bevins
In what year does the novel take place.
1862
Reason for the Bardo residents mass inhabiting Lincoln
To turn him back to Willie's tomb
Lawrence Decroix's food product, "the best . . . in the nation"
Pickles
Object with which Elson Farwell beats Cecil Stone's skull into a "flat pulpy mass"
A stone
"And we rode forward into the night, past the sleeping houses of our countrymen."
Thomas Havens (to no one)
Age at which Willie Lincoln dies.
11
Illness that led to Willie Lincoln's death
Typhoid
Name one item that falls from the sky after Eddie Baron goes through the matterlightblooming phenomenon.
a racing form or an obscene cartoon
Who (in general) says, "How was I (how are any of us) to do other than that which we, at that time, actually do?"
The carapace people
"We must conserve our strength, restricting our activities to only those which directly serve our central purpose."
The Reverend to Vollman and Bevins
How many daughters/gelatinous orbs did Mrs. Ellis have?
3
Specific reason why the Bardo inhabitants line up in front of Willie's tomb the first time.
The loving way that Willie had been held and touched by his father.
Where does Hans Vollman go through the matterlightblooming phenomenon?
Inside the final form of Elise Traynor
Form taken by the spirits who come for Willie (on the night the spirits take different forms for everyone).
Ten mothers
" . . . of an evening they would sit on the grass around me and in their eyes burned the fiercest kindest Desire."
Elise Traynor
Number of days (approximately) that Lieutenant Cecil Stone has been in the Bardo
More than 20,000
What does Lincoln mean when he says that he "would lead the rabble in managing"? Who are the rabble? What would they be managing?
The rabble are the common (white) people, and they would be managing themselves and a democratic form of government.
What does Roger Bevins remember that he saw at the baker's on the day of his death.
Gilbert was with another man.
Final form of Elise Traynor
Wreck of a train car with people trapped inside and hogs underneath the wheels
"But we can't go back. To how we were. All we can do is what we should."
Willie Lincoln to Vollman and Bevins (and others)
Number of weighty books written by brilliant Professor Edmund Bloomer.
18 (correct if you come within two)
What is Lincoln's state of mind at the very end of the novel?
Deeply unhappy