Paradise Quizzes

Paradise Quiz 1

1 What year was the novel published?
1994

1983

1997

2000
2 What major prize did Toni Morrison win prior to publishing Paradise?
The Nobel

The National Book Award

The Man Booker

The MacArthur
3 What nationality is Toni Morrison?
Canadian

Jamaican

American

British
4 What type of Christianity is practiced at the Convent?
Lutheranism

Catholicism

Mormonism

Quakers
5 Who is narrating the novel?
Pat Best

Deek

Third person omniscient

Connie
6 What is the name of the town the founders of Ruby left?
Eden

Haven

Shelter

Paradise
7 Deek is short for
Decatur

Dickinson

Duncan

Deacon
8 Who built the Convent originally?
an embezzler

a governor

a lawyer

a banker
9 Who are the sections named for?
deities

female characters

famous explorers

figures of Ruby history
10 Where is the novel set?
Nebraska

Minnesota

Oklahoma

Texas
11 What year is the novel set in?
1965

1898

1948

1976
12 Which of the Convent women does K.D. fall in love with?
Seneca

Mavis

Pallas

Gigi
13 What is the relationship between Dovey and Soane Morgan?
aunt and niece

cousins

mother and daughter

sisters
14 What kind of car does Mavis drive?
a Cadillac

a Chevy

a Ford

a Buick
15 What is Ace's?
a general store

a shoe store

a pastry shop

a pharmacy
16 Where is Connie from?
Brazil

Germany

Spain

Italy
17 Who is Richard Misner?
a distant relative of the Morgans

a visiting civil rights activist

the new doctor

the new reverend
18 The Oven is
taken apart by vandals

left behind in Haven

still in use

only a symbolic meeting place
19 Who is married to Steward Morgan?
Pat

Anna

Soane

Dovey
20 Roger Best runs
an apothecary

an accounting business

a gas station

a mortuary and ambulance
21 Who dies in the "Grace" section?
Save-Marie Fleetwood

Delia Best

Ruby Smith

Mary Magna
22 The Morgan and Fleetwood men meet to discuss
The death of Ruby Morgan

K.D. and Arnette

A business deal

The cause of the Fleetwood children's illness
23 Meeting Gigi reminds K.D. of a childhood memory of
of falling out of a tree

of seeing a segregated swimming pool

of being bitted by a spider

of going hunting with his uncles
24 The Morgans are described as having
an infallible memory

many expensive cars

a store of treasure

a tendency to lie
25 Who does Arnette become pregnant by?
Menus

Apollo

K.D.

Brood

How Old was Lone when she started to drive a car in Toni Morrison's Paradise?

Lone was seventy-nine-years old.

Asked by Kathleen K #1073340

Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/11/2020 5:18 PM

The only reference to "sweetness" in Chapter Three, Grace, is Misner's reference to the "sweetest of sleeps", which he attributes to having eaten Anna's food. Milk and sugar are not mentioned.

Asked by T K #1033166

Answered by jill d #170087 on 7/10/2020 12:27 PM

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what would be a good thesis statement for a seminar paper that looks at the concept of black exceptionalism in "Paradise" by Toni Morrison

Wow, a thesis statement for a seminar paper is an important thing. Check out colorism below:

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Asked by Rochelle H #899126

Answered by Aslan on 4/30/2019 3:05 PM

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Paradise

by Toni Morrison

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