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1. Why do Bailey and Marguerite go to live with their grandma in Stamps, Arkansas?

     Their parents were having problems and decided to get a divorce.

2. What do Bailey and Marguerite call their grandma?

     Momma

3. Who rapes Marguerite?

     Mr. Freeman

4. If Marguerite is to tell anyone about what Mr. Freeman does to her, who does he tell her he will kill?

     He says he will kill her brother, Bailey

5.What happens to Mr. Freeman after his trial?

     He is shot outside the court house

6. Who teaches Marguerite to read out loud to gain confidence in speaking?

     Mrs. Bertha Flowers

7. What name does Mrs. Cullinan call Marguerite that makes her become upset?

     Mary

8. How did Uncle Willie become crippled?

     He had been dropped when he was three years old by a babysitter.

9. Besides Bailey, who is Marguerite's first friend?

     Louise

10. Vivian Baxter is very beautiful, which one of her children takes on this trait?

     Bailey

 11. Where are Baily and Marguerite sent to live?

     With their mother in St. Louis, Missouri

12. Where do Baily, Marguerite, Mother and Daddy Clidell move to?

     San Fransisco, California

13. Why does Bailey move out of the house? And where does he go?

     Bailey feels like he has grown up and wants to live on his own.  Betty, the white prostitute finds a      room for Bailey to live in.

14. What does Marguerite think she might be because she looks different from the other girls her age?

     A lesbian.

15. Who does Marguerite have sex with?

     A neighbor boy.

16. What did Marguerite find out 3 weeks after having sex?

     She was pregnant.

17. How long does Marguerite's mother and Daddy Clidell go without knowing about the pregnancy?

     8 months and 1 week

18. What leads you to believe that the events in the preface are painful to recall?

     The narrator says that she has not so mcuh forgotten as she had not been able to bring herself to remember

19.  At what church was the narrator performing?

     Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

20. What color was the narrators Easter dress?

     lavender taffeta dress

21. How does the narrator keep her legs soft?

     Greasing it with Blue Seal Vaseline

22. How did the children react to the narrator forgetting her lines?

     They laughed at her

23.  How did she further humiliate herself?

     She wet her pants

24.  What line did the narrator forget?

     "I just come to tell you it's Easter Day