Q 01/05

In Sula, a white farmer tricks a freed slave into taking hilltop land as the bottom of what?

A) The river

B) The mountain

C) Heaven

D) The county

Answer · why

C) Heaven

Heaven was the pitch: the farmer claimed the rocky hills were the bottom of heaven as God saw it. That is how a Black neighborhood high above the vall...

Q 02/05

Which annual holiday does the shell-shocked veteran Shadrack invent in Toni Morrison's Sula?

A) National Mourning Day

B) Soldiers' Homecoming Day

C) Day of the Fallen

D) National Suicide Day

Answer · why

D) National Suicide Day

National Suicide Day falls on January 3. Shadrack reasons that if death is given one day of its own, everyone can live unafraid until the next one com...

Q 03/05

Which part of her body is Eva missing when she returns after eighteen months away in Sula?

A) Her leg

B) Her hand

C) Her eye

D) Her ear

Answer · why

A) Her leg

Her leg is gone, and far from hiding the loss she keeps the remaining one in a fine stocking and shoe at all times. Nobody in town ever learns for cer...

Q 04/05

How does Eva try to reach her daughter Hannah when Hannah's dress catches fire in the yard in Sula?

A) Crawls down the stairs

B) Slides down a drainpipe

C) Jumps out a window

D) Calls the neighbors

Answer · why

C) Jumps out a window

Eva jumps out a window of her upstairs bedroom, hoping to drag herself across the yard in time. The fall nearly kills her, and Hannah dies on the way ...

Q 05/05

Which birds descend on the Bottom in huge numbers on the day Sula returns after a decade away?

A) Crows

B) Starlings

C) Blackbirds

D) Robins

Answer · why

D) Robins

Robins fill the trees and foul the streets she walks through. The townspeople link the plague to her homecoming and read both as an evil omen.