This is Ruth's older brother who was killed after joining the army to fight in World War II.
Who is Sam?
100
This was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.
What is the Black Panthers?
100
This is the number of siblings James has.
What is 11?
100
This is the neighborhood where Dennis and Ruth lived with their eight children.
What is Harlem?
100
This is the genre of book which is an account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiography.
What is memoir?
200
This older brother of James kept his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement private.
Who is Dennis?
200
James' sister Helen identified with this subculture that was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s.
What are hippies?
200
This is James' sister who ran away from home.
Who is Helen?
200
This is the town where Ruth’s family had their store.
What is Suffolk?
200
This object symbolizes Ruth's "otherness" in her neighborhood.
What is her bicycle?
300
Ruth has many positive memories about this childhood friend in Suffolk.
Who is Frances?
300
When Ruth married her husband Dennis, she made this significant religious decision.
What is converted to Christianity?
300
Ruth's maternal grandmother, she is one of her few family members Ruth recalls fondly.
Who is Bubeh?
300
This is the country where Ruth was born.
What is Poland?
300
These colors represent black liberation.
What are red, black, and green?
400
Ruth's mother finds a bracelet given to Ruth by this secret boyfriend.
Who is Peter?
400
Before Ruth's father Tateh opened his store, he did this for a living.
What is work as a traveling rabbi?
400
Fishel Shilsky is better known by this name.
What is Tateh?
400
As a teenager, James becomes interested in this musical genre which is characterized by its blue notes and improvisation.
What is jazz?
400
This group is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members as of 2012.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
Ruth's second husband and James's primary male role model.
Who is Hunter Jordan?
500
This was Ruth's hobby as a child.
What is running?
500
This brother asked his Sunday school teacher why Jesus is always portrayed as a white man.
Who is Richie?
500
This word, important in the writing of The Color of Water, means "a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem."
What is a tribute?
500
In Judaism, this is something that is fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws.