Paradise Quizzes

Paradise Quiz 1

1 What year was the novel published?
1983

1994

2000

1997
2 What major prize did Toni Morrison win prior to publishing Paradise?
The Nobel

The National Book Award

The MacArthur

The Man Booker
3 What nationality is Toni Morrison?
Canadian

British

Jamaican

American
4 What type of Christianity is practiced at the Convent?
Mormonism

Quakers

Lutheranism

Catholicism
5 Who is narrating the novel?
Deek

Pat Best

Connie

Third person omniscient
6 What is the name of the town the founders of Ruby left?
Shelter

Paradise

Eden

Haven
7 Deek is short for
Deacon

Decatur

Duncan

Dickinson
8 Who built the Convent originally?
a governor

a banker

an embezzler

a lawyer
9 Who are the sections named for?
deities

female characters

figures of Ruby history

famous explorers
10 Where is the novel set?
Minnesota

Texas

Nebraska

Oklahoma
11 What year is the novel set in?
1948

1898

1976

1965
12 Which of the Convent women does K.D. fall in love with?
Pallas

Seneca

Mavis

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

sisters

cousins

mother and daughter
14 What kind of car does Mavis drive?
a Buick

a Ford

a Chevy

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

Spain

Brazil
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
taken apart by vandals

left behind in Haven

still in use

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

Pat

Anna

Dovey
20 Roger Best runs
an accounting business

an apothecary

a gas station

a mortuary and ambulance
21 Who dies in the "Grace" section?
Ruby Smith

Mary Magna

Delia Best

Save-Marie Fleetwood
22 The Morgan and Fleetwood men meet to discuss
K.D. and Arnette

The death of Ruby Morgan

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
a store of treasure

many expensive cars

a tendency to lie

an infallible memory
25 Who does Arnette become pregnant by?
K.D.

Brood

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Apollo

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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