If Beale Street Could Talk Quizzes

If Beale Street Could Talk Quiz 1

1 Who wrote "If Beale Street Could Talk"?
W. E. B. DuBois

Amiri Baraka

Ernest Hemmingway

James Baldwin
2 What year was "If Beale Street Could Talk" written?
1997

1974

1999

2003
3 Where do the Rivers family live?
Harlem

The Village

The West End

The Bronx
4 Where does Fonny have an apartment?
Harlem

SoHo

The Village

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

Make sculptures

Draw portraits of Tish

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

Ernestine

Andrea

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

Sharon

Ernest

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

Frank

Jacob

Joseph
9 What is Tish's given name?
Clem

Clementine

Laura

Sandra
10 What is Fonny's given name?
Alejandro

Alonzo

Alfred

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

George

Lucas

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

Lucy

Anne

Mary
13 What is Fonny's mother called throughout the book?
Mrs. Hayweather

Mrs. Rivers

Mrs. Rogers

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

Alexandra

Alessandra

Adrienne
15 What is Fonny's other sister's name?
Samantha

Susan

Sheila

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

The Tombs

The Catacombs

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

A battlefield

Death Valley

The Sahara Desert
18 Is Tish close with her sister, Ernestine?
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.

Yes, they love each other very much, and Ernestine practically raised her.

No, their relationship is quite strained.
19 How did Sharon and Joseph meet?
In a store in Massachusetts

At a train station in Albany

In a historically black church in the South

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

Mormon

Baptist

Sanctified
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, but Fonny is closer with his mother than he is with them.

Yes, they are best friends, and until Fonny went to jail, they spent every moment together.
22 Who are having a baby together in "Beale Street"?
Ernestine and Adrienne

Sharon and Joseph

Fonny and Tish

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

Mary Magdeline

"The Concubine"

Jezebel
24 Where does Tish work?
In a bookstore

She doesn't have a job

At a perfume store

At a hospital
25 What is one source of tension in Fonny's family?
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.

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