1 What year was the novel published? 1997 2000 1994 1983 2 What major prize did Toni Morrison win prior to publishing Paradise? The Man Booker The National Book Award The Nobel The MacArthur 3 What nationality is Toni Morrison? British Canadian Jamaican American 4 What type of Christianity is practiced at the Convent? Mormonism Lutheranism Quakers Catholicism 5 Who is narrating the novel? Third person omniscient Pat Best Connie Deek 6 What is the name of the town the founders of Ruby left? Paradise Haven Shelter Eden 7 Deek is short for Dickinson Deacon Decatur Duncan 8 Who built the Convent originally? a banker a governor an embezzler a lawyer 9 Who are the sections named for? famous explorers female characters deities figures of Ruby history 10 Where is the novel set? Oklahoma Texas Minnesota Nebraska 11 What year is the novel set in? 1898 1976 1948 1965 12 Which of the Convent women does K.D. fall in love with? Pallas Gigi Seneca Mavis 13 What is the relationship between Dovey and Soane Morgan? cousins sisters mother and daughter aunt and niece 14 What kind of car does Mavis drive? a Chevy a Buick a Ford a Cadillac 15 What is Ace's? a pharmacy a shoe store a pastry shop a general store 16 Where is Connie from? Germany Italy Brazil Spain 17 Who is Richard Misner? a visiting civil rights activist a distant relative of the Morgans the new doctor the new reverend 18 The Oven is still in use only a symbolic meeting place taken apart by vandals left behind in Haven 19 Who is married to Steward Morgan? Anna Dovey Soane Pat 20 Roger Best runs a gas station an apothecary a mortuary and ambulance an accounting business 21 Who dies in the "Grace" section? Ruby Smith Delia Best Mary Magna Save-Marie Fleetwood 22 The Morgan and Fleetwood men meet to discuss The cause of the Fleetwood children's illness The death of Ruby Morgan K.D. and Arnette A business deal 23 Meeting Gigi reminds K.D. of a childhood memory of of seeing a segregated swimming pool of going hunting with his uncles of being bitted by a spider of falling out of a tree 24 The Morgans are described as having a tendency to lie a store of treasure many expensive cars an infallible memory 25 Who does Arnette become pregnant by? Brood Menus K.D. Apollo
