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What 2 items does Lilly receive from Zack?
Dog tags and a green Notebook/Journal
This bee is relatively large, hairy, and has the traditional colors of black and yellow on its body.
Bumblebee
Any person who takes the law into his or her own hands is a?
Vigilante
"Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”
August
What does honey represent beyond sweetness in the novel’s deeper message?
The idea that suffering and labor can produce healing and meaning.
When walking to town Lily and Rosaleen run into trouble. What does Rosaleen write on the man's shoes?
Her name, Rosaleen, in cursive.
Lily’s journey mirrors this bee behavior, leaving one place to find a new home.
Swarming
What is Resilience?
The ability to recover and keep going after hardship.
"Lily, I like you better than any girl I’ve ever known, but you have to understand, there are people who would kill boys like me for even looking at girls like you."
Zack
How does the novel challenge traditional definitions of family?
By showing that family is chosen, not only biological.
What is the first clue T. Ray gets to find out where Lily went?
The hole in her map where she pinned a pin on the city of Tiburon.
August teaches Lily that bees can sense this human emotion.
Fear
What are Civil Rights?
The rights of people to be treated equally, regardless of race.
“Some hurts don’t ever go away.”
May
What is the central philosophical message about identity in the novel?
That identity is shaped through relationships, memory, and chosen belonging rather than origin alone.
How does May find out about Zack missing?
Zack's mother came to the house to pray to the Black Mary.
A beehive depends on every bee working together, symbolizing this major theme in the novel.
Community
What is consternation?
A strong feeling of anxiety or dismay that hinders or causes confusion.
"People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life."
Lily
Why is May’s “wailing wall” more than a coping mechanism?
It is a physical manifestation of collective grief and unprocessed emotional trauma.
At the end of the movie what does Lily ask T.Ray before he leaves?
She ask when her mother came back did she really come back for her things or was she there to get Lily.
A honeybee has a caste of three types of bees which are what and what do each of them do?
The one queen bee that lays the eggs. Some hundred drones that are fertile male bees. Thousands of undeveloped female bees that are the worker bees.
This was "The food of the Gods."
Ambrosia
“I’m not afraid of standing up for myself.”
Rosaleen
What is the purpose of revealing Lily’s mother’s truth gradually instead of all at once?
To mirror Lily’s emotional growth and challenge assumptions about memory and identity