Q 01/05

In One Crazy Summer, the cash Pa hands his daughters is meant for a visit to which attraction?

A) Knott's Berry Farm

B) Disneyland

C) Universal Studios

D) Marineland

Answer · why

B) Disneyland

Disneyland never happens: on the first night Cecile takes the cash to pay for takeout and laughs at the idea of the trip.

Q 02/05

Which boxer does Delphine picture throwing punches in the clouds on the bumpy flight in One Crazy Summer?

A) Joe Frazier

B) Sonny Liston

C) Joe Louis

D) Cassius Clay

Answer · why

D) Cassius Clay

Cassius Clay is the name Big Ma still uses, while Pa says Muhammad Ali, so Delphine switches between the two. Names, and who gets to choose them, matt...

Q 03/05

In One Crazy Summer, what does Cecile call her youngest daughter instead of using the name Fern?

A) Little Girl

B) Baby Sister

C) Short Stuff

D) Small Fry

Answer · why

A) Little Girl

Little Girl is all Fern hears from her mother until the last morning of the visit. The coldness goes back to a family quarrel over what the baby shoul...

Q 04/05

What is the name of the white baby doll that Fern carries everywhere in One Crazy Summer?

A) Betsy Wetsy

B) Tiny Chatty Baby

C) Miss Patty Cake

D) Raggedy Ann

Answer · why

C) Miss Patty Cake

Miss Patty Cake goes wherever Fern goes, which is why a Panther's jab about a Black child loving a white doll stings. Fern shrugs him off and wins ove...

Q 05/05

What does Cecile keep in the kitchen that her daughters are forbidden to enter in One Crazy Summer?

A) A painter's studio

B) A printing press

C) A pottery wheel

D) A darkroom

Answer · why

B) A printing press

A printing press fills the room, and Cecile sets her poems on it letter by letter. Before the girls find out, they guess she is forging money in there...