If Beale Street Could Talk Quizzes

If Beale Street Could Talk Quiz 1

1 Who wrote "If Beale Street Could Talk"?
Ernest Hemmingway

W. E. B. DuBois

James Baldwin

Amiri Baraka
2 What year was "If Beale Street Could Talk" written?
1997

1999

2003

1974
3 Where do the Rivers family live?
Harlem

The Bronx

The Village

The West End
4 Where does Fonny have an apartment?
The Village

Brooklyn

Harlem

SoHo
5 What does Fonny like to do in his free time?
Paint with oils

Draw portraits of Tish

Make sculptures

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

Ernestine

Cecilia

Andrea
7 What is Tish's mother's name?
Ernest

Sharon

Sandra

Amelia
8 What is Tish's father's name?
Berlien

Jacob

Joseph

Frank
9 What is Tish's given name?
Laura

Clem

Sandra

Clementine
10 What is Fonny's given name?
Alfred

Alejandro

Alonzo

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

Fred

Frank

Lucas
12 What is Fonny's mother's first name?
Mary

Alice

Lucy

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

Mrs. Hayweather

Mrs. Hunt

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

Adrienne

Alexandra

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

Samantha

Susan

Sandra
16 What do the characters in the book call the jail where Fonny is housed?
The Crypts

The Catacombs

The Graveyard

The Tombs
17 What does Tish compare the Tombs to in the beginning of the book?
A deadly hospital

The Sahara Desert

A battlefield

Death Valley
18 Is Tish close with her sister, Ernestine?
No, their relationship is quite strained.

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

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

Yes, they love each other very much, and Ernestine practically raised her.
19 How did Sharon and Joseph meet?
At Planned Parenthood in New York City

In a store in Massachusetts

In a historically black church in the South

At a train station in Albany
20 What sect of Christianity is Mrs. Hunt a part of?
Catholic

Sanctified

Mormon

Baptist
21 Is Fonny close with his sisters?
Yes, they are best friends, and until Fonny went to jail, they spent every moment together.

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

Fonny and Tish

Alice and Frank

Ernestine and Adrienne
23 What does Ernestine sometimes call her sister?
Jezebel

"The Concubine"

Mary Magdeline

Esther
24 Where does Tish work?
At a perfume store

In a bookstore

She doesn't have a job

At a hospital
25 What is one source of tension in Fonny's family?
Mrs. Hunt and Frank are getting a divorce.

The men believe that they are more educated than the women.

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

Fonny can never stop fighting with his sisters.

Throughout If Beale Street Could Talk, the family unit plays a central role in the joy and tensions of the novel’s characters. Critic Trudier Harris claims that "[t]he family [serves] as the ultimate unit of salvation" in the novel. This is...

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