If Beale Street Could Talk Quizzes

If Beale Street Could Talk Quiz 1

1 Who wrote "If Beale Street Could Talk"?
James Baldwin

W. E. B. DuBois

Ernest Hemmingway

Amiri Baraka
2 What year was "If Beale Street Could Talk" written?
2003

1974

1997

1999
3 Where do the Rivers family live?
Harlem

The Bronx

The West End

The Village
4 Where does Fonny have an apartment?
SoHo

The Village

Harlem

Brooklyn
5 What does Fonny like to do in his free time?
Draw portraits of Tish

Make sculptures

Paint with oils

Weave
6 What is Tish's sister's name?
Sandra

Andrea

Cecilia

Ernestine
7 What is Tish's mother's name?
Sandra

Sharon

Amelia

Ernest
8 What is Tish's father's name?
Jacob

Joseph

Frank

Berlien
9 What is Tish's given name?
Clem

Clementine

Laura

Sandra
10 What is Fonny's given name?
Alonzo

Alejandro

Alfred

Frank Jr.
11 What is Fonny's father's name?
Frank

Lucas

George

Fred
12 What is Fonny's mother's first name?
Alice

Mary

Lucy

Anne
13 What is Fonny's mother called throughout the book?
Mrs. Rogers

Mrs. Rivers

Mrs. Hayweather

Mrs. Hunt
14 What is one of Fonny's sisters' name?
Alessandra

Alexandra

Adrienne

Adrianna
15 What is Fonny's other sister's name?
Susan

Sheila

Sandra

Samantha
16 What do the characters in the book call the jail where Fonny is housed?
The Graveyard

The Catacombs

The Crypts

The Tombs
17 What does Tish compare the Tombs to in the beginning of the book?
Death Valley

A battlefield

The Sahara Desert

A deadly hospital
18 Is Tish close with her sister, Ernestine?
Yes, they love each other very much, and Ernestine practically raised her.

Yes, they are very close and have a loving relationship. However, this wasn't true until Ernestine's "awakening."

Not really; they have exchanged letters but they have never actually met in person.

No, their relationship is quite strained.
19 How did Sharon and Joseph meet?
In a historically black church in the South

At a train station in Albany

In a store in Massachusetts

At Planned Parenthood in New York City
20 What sect of Christianity is Mrs. Hunt a part of?
Catholic

Sanctified

Mormon

Baptist
21 Is Fonny close with his sisters?
Not really; they feel ashamed of him because they don't think he amounted to much in his life.

No, they have never met in person and only correspond through letters.

Yes, they are best friends, and until Fonny went to jail, they spent every moment together.

Yes, but Fonny is closer with his mother than he is with them.
22 Who are having a baby together in "Beale Street"?
Ernestine and Adrienne

Fonny and Tish

Sharon and Joseph

Alice and Frank
23 What does Ernestine sometimes call her sister?
Mary Magdeline

Jezebel

Esther

"The Concubine"
24 Where does Tish work?
At a perfume store

She doesn't have a job

In a bookstore

At a hospital
25 What is one source of tension in Fonny's family?
The men believe that they are more educated than the women.

Mrs. Hunt and Frank are getting a divorce.

Fonny can never stop fighting with his sisters.

The women members of the family have lighter skin than the men.