Plot
Who created the family tree of Ruby?
Patricia
Who did Sula and Nel accidentally throw into the river?
Chicken Little
What aspect of the Recitatif was deliberately hidden?
The race of the characters was unclear because the dialogues were not tagged.
What war does Frank Money fight in that causes his PTSD?
The Korean War
“They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly.”
The Bluest Eye about the Breedloves
What event causes Booker to be vehemently against all forms of child abuse?
His brother Adam was molested and murdered by a serial killer when he was a child.
Who worked for the Butler family?
Circe
What theme, recurrent in many of Toni Morrison's works, is highlighted by Sweetness’ hatred of her daughter’s “Sudanese black skin?”
Colorism
What hardship are all of the characters in A Mercy living through?
colonial smallpox epidemic of the 1700s
“One had a past, the other a future and each one bore the culture to save the race in his hands. Mama-spoiled black man, will you mature with me? Culture-bearing black woman, whose culture are you bearing?"
Tar Baby about Jadine and Son’s perspectives on what will save the black race.
How many years does Sula leave the Bottom for?
Who kills her son because of his regression to infantilism?
Eva Peace
Name something that Frank Money struggles with that is symbolized through his visions of the zoot-suited man.
Masculinity
Jazz music was a very important contribution during these two time periods.
The Harlem Renaissance; The Roaring 20s
“Soon I would have torn the flesh from his face just to see if I was right about the gold and nobody would have understood that kind of curiosity. They would have believed that I wanted to hurt him.”
Sula
Who put "the maze of scars" on Sethe's back in Beloved, while being a big factor in Sethe's overall traumatic past?
School Teacher
What two characters are burned alive by a fire?
Hannah Peace and Queen Olive
The woman in the yellow dress spits at Jadine because she is disgusted with how she allows her skin to be...
exoticized/commodified
Name a historical trend of the 1950s that Home engages with.
McCarthyism, anti-communism, medical experimentation.
“In the post-blast silence the pleas wafted like the sound of a cheap cello coming from a chute of cattle smelling like their blood-soaked future.”
Home
While Solomon is celebrated, Ryna is not. Why?
Name all of the mothers who killed their children. (5)
Sethe, Sethe's mother, Eva Peace, Ella, Mavis (accidentally)
What is the disappearance of the bodies and the sparing of the men involved in the massacre in Paradise explained by?
God/ Religion
In 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, an affluent Black community, was destroyed by white people and many Black people lost their lives. Which book indirectly references this historical event by creating a similar fictional situation?
Paradise
“But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place-the picture of it-stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world.”
Beloved