Q 01/05

In the novel Sounder, the dog has something the boy, his parents and every other character go without: what?

A) A name

B) A home

C) A voice

D) A birthday

Answer · why

A) A name

A name belongs to the dog alone: everyone else is just the boy, the mother, the father or the teacher. The author said Bible stories taught him to cut...

Q 02/05

In the novel Sounder, the sharecropper father is arrested for stealing what to feed his hungry family?

A) A chicken

B) A ham

C) A turkey

D) A goat

Answer · why

B) A ham

A ham boiling on the stove is the first the children know of it, and the family feasts for three days before the sheriff arrives. The mother later car...

Q 03/05

In the novel Sounder, the dog is named Sounder for which trait of his?

A) His thumping tail

B) His heavy snoring

C) His booming bark

D) His pounding paws

Answer · why

C) His booming bark

His booming bark rings out so loudly that most of the neighbors can hear it. After he is shot he falls silent for years, and regains his voice only on...

Q 04/05

Which leading American award for children's literature did the novel Sounder win in 1970?

A) Caldecott Medal

B) Pulitzer Prize

C) National Book Award

D) Newbery Medal

Answer · why

D) Newbery Medal

Newbery Medal judges chose it the year after it was published, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award followed. Its author kept teaching history to ninth g...

Q 05/05

Which actress earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination as the mother, Rebecca, in the 1972 film Sounder?

A) Diahann Carroll

B) Cicely Tyson

C) Ruby Dee

D) Diana Ross

Answer · why

B) Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson and Diana Ross were both up for Best Actress that night, the first time two Black women were nominated for it together. Liza Minnelli won...