Quiz Guide: Mama Day Part 1 (1-97)
- What's the significance of 1823?
- What's unique about Willow Springs?
- Describe some of Reema's boy's shortcomings.
- Describe Cocoa aka Babygirl aka Ophelia's first encounter with George.
- What does Cocoa do with the toothpicks?
- What does Cocoa mean by fudge cream and cherry vanilla?
- Why did Chip dig Mrs. Jackson a new rose garden?
- Why does George say he wants Ophelia to call him by his first name?
- Who is Clarissa, and what does she look like?
- Who is Old Arthur? (Think about it a minute...)
- Whom does Miranda describe as "honorary white folks"?
- Why does Bernice worry about losing Ambush?
- Why did Cocoa once almost cut off her finger?
- Describe the person whom Miranda calls "Buzzard."
- Why is George's fortune cookie important to the story?
- What does George read before his dinner with Cocoa, and how does that reading foreshadow the evening?
- Why does Cocoa say that Shakespeare "didn't have a bit of soul"?
- What information about Ruby and Junior Lee doesn't make it into Abigail's letter to Cocoa?
- What happens to Bernice, and how does Mama Day (aka Miranda) help her?
- Compare Dr. Buzzard and Dr. Smithfield.
- What must Bernice do with the pumpkin seeds?
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