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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?
 
Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 26-mar-14