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Vocablary Words
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Ruchel Dwarja Zylska
What is Ruth's original Jewish name?
100
I'm light-skinned.
What is Ruth's answer to her children's question, "Are you white?"
100
Ruth's father's job
What is a traveling preacher (rabbi)?
100
What business did Ruth's father start in Virginia?
What is a store?
100
Relating to Jewish laws concerning food and ritual objects.
What is kosher?
200
A rabbi
What is Ruth's father's occupation?
200
Absolute privacy, excellent school grades, and trusting no outsiders.
What are the things that Ruth insists on?
200
Where Ruth's family moved to when she was about eight or nine years old.
What is Virginia? (Suffolk, Virginia)
200
Sam
What is Ruth's brother's name?
200
A movement in support of rights and political power for black people, esp. prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is Black Power?
300
The reason Ruth's mother is crippled.
What is polio?
300
Ruth's job
What is a typist?
300
How Ruth cuts her children's hair
What is by cutting around an actual bowl?
300
Killed in World War II.
What happens to Sam?
300
Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes:
What is bourgeois?
400
How Ruth's parents met
What is through an arranged marriage?
400
James's biological father
Who is Andrew McBride?
400
How Ruth describes what color God's spirit is
What is "the color of water."
400
Ruth's daughter who runs away from home
Who is Helen?
400
A Jewish scholar or teacher, esp. one who studies or teaches Jewish law.
What is a rabbi?
500
Being thrown out of the country
What is something Ruths' father threatened to do to her?
500
The Black Panther's son gets one of these because James is afraid his father will hurt his mother
What is a punch in the face?
500
The Incredible Hulk
What is the character that Richie (James's brother) pretends to be. (p. 52)
500
Ruth's son who is on track to be a doctor.
Who is Dennis?
500
The militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.
What are the Blank Panthers?