Sula Quizzes

Sula Quiz 1

By Andrea Clay · Edited by Bella Wang · Last reviewed February 25, 2011

1 Sula is first published when?

1965

1920

1973

1980
2 Sula is Toni Morrison's ___ novel.

seventh

second

first

fifth
3 Shadrack is a solder in which war?

World War II

Vietnam

The Civil War

World War I
4 Medallion is a city in which state?

Kansas

Arkansas

Ohio

Louisiana
5 Where is Helene born?

The Sundown House

Cincinnati

Beechnut Home

7 Carpenter's Road
6 What does Wiley Wright do for a living?

Nurse

Soldier

Chef on a shipline

Traveling Salesman
7 What do the nurse's call Shadrack while he is in the hospital?

Tar Baby

Private

Boy

Sir
8 Why do Nel and Helene travel to New Orleans?

To find Nel a husband

To visit Helene's mother, Rochelle

To visit Celene who has fallen ill

for Mardis Gras
9 How do people say the Bottom became a mostly Black neighborhood?

A construction site attracted many black laborers

A slave earned the land from his master

Eva bought the entire plot of land with a mysterious new fortune

Blacks were kicked out of the valley and forced to settle in the hills
10 Who is the founder of National Suicide Day?

Shadrack

Plum

The Deweys

Tar Baby
11 On what day does National Suicide Day occur?

April 7

January 30

January 3

January 1
12 What language does Helene's mother speak?

Portuguese

Spanish

Creole

Italian
13 When does Helene have her first daughter?

9 years after she is married

the year after she is married

before she is married

the day she is married
14 Where did Eva grow up?

Chicago

Virginia

Maryland

Ohio
15 Plum has a problem with his ______ as a child.

nose

amputated leg

bowels

eyesight
16 When Eva returns she is missing which body part?

Eye

Leg

Finger

Arm
17 After BoyBoy visits, what does Eva decide she feels towards him?

embarassment

Hatred

undying love

pity
18 What do the Peace women inherit from their mother?

grey hair

A love of "maleness"

a fondness for smoking

birthmarks on their eyelids
19 What happens to Sula's father Rekus?

He dies

He goes away to war

He runs away from home

He is killed in prison
20 How does Plum die?

He is set on fire by Eva

He drowns in a lake

He commits suicide

He overdoses on drugs
21 What does Eva do when she lasts sees Plum?

She yells at him for being lazy.

She rocks him in her arms?

She tells him to get a job.

She takes away his drugs and tells him to move out.
22 What does Ajax shout at Nel and Sula in their girlhood?

Pig Skin

I'm ill

Gal

Look here
23 Who bullies Sula and Nel on their way home from school?

Teapot

Tar Baby

4 white boys

Chicken Little
24 What does Sula do to get rid of the bullies?

She threatens to tell her father.

She cuts her own finger with a knife.

She throws a bottle at them.

She throws them into the lake.
25 What does Sula teach Chicken?

How to cook.

How to speak Creole.

How to climb a tree.

How to shave a twig.

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