Paradise Quizzes

Paradise Quiz 1

1 What year was the novel published?
1997

1994

2000

1983
2 What major prize did Toni Morrison win prior to publishing Paradise?
The Nobel

The Man Booker

The MacArthur

The National Book Award
3 What nationality is Toni Morrison?
British

Canadian

American

Jamaican
4 What type of Christianity is practiced at the Convent?
Catholicism

Mormonism

Quakers

Lutheranism
5 Who is narrating the novel?
Pat Best

Third person omniscient

Connie

Deek
6 What is the name of the town the founders of Ruby left?
Haven

Paradise

Eden

Shelter
7 Deek is short for
Deacon

Decatur

Dickinson

Duncan
8 Who built the Convent originally?
an embezzler

a banker

a governor

a lawyer
9 Who are the sections named for?
figures of Ruby history

female characters

deities

famous explorers
10 Where is the novel set?
Nebraska

Oklahoma

Minnesota

Texas
11 What year is the novel set in?
1898

1948

1965

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

Gigi

Pallas

Mavis
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 Buick

a Chevy

a Ford

a Cadillac
15 What is Ace's?
a pharmacy

a shoe store

a general store

a pastry shop
16 Where is Connie from?
Italy

Germany

Brazil

Spain
17 Who is Richard Misner?
the new reverend

the new doctor

a distant relative of the Morgans

a visiting civil rights activist
18 The Oven is
left behind in Haven

only a symbolic meeting place

taken apart by vandals

still in use
19 Who is married to Steward Morgan?
Soane

Dovey

Pat

Anna
20 Roger Best runs
a gas station

an accounting business

an apothecary

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

Ruby Smith

Mary Magna

Delia Best
22 The Morgan and Fleetwood men meet to discuss
A business deal

The death of Ruby Morgan

The cause of the Fleetwood children's illness

K.D. and Arnette
23 Meeting Gigi reminds K.D. of a childhood memory of
of seeing a segregated swimming pool

of going hunting with his uncles

of falling out of a tree

of being bitted by a spider
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?
Menus

K.D.

Brood

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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