Crooks

Question 1

Hopes and dreams

Hardship

Answer 1

‘Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody gets no land’.

Question 2

Loneliness

Isolation

Answer 2

It was difficult for crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

‘You got no rights coming in a coloured man’s room’.

Question 4

Discrimination

Isolation

Answer 4

Crooks seemed to grow smaller, he pressed himself against the wall

Question 5

Loneliness

Answer 5

‘A guy needs somebody’.

Question 6

Hopes and dreams

Answer 6

‘A coloured man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ‘em’

Question 7

Cyclic narrative

Answer 7

With the other he rubbed his spine.

He fell slowly to rubbing his back.

Question 8

Discrimination

Answer 8

‘You got no right to come in my room’.

Question 9

Friendship

Answer 9

But lennies disarming smile defeated him.

Question 10

Discrimination

Isolation

Answer 10

‘Why, it’s just a nigger saying it’.

Question 11

Isolation

Answer 11

Crook’s face lightened with pleasure in his torture.

Question 12

Isolation

Answer 12

‘Mr Slim’.

Question 13

Discrimination

Answer 13

A mauled copy of the California Civil Code for 1905

Question 14

Isolation

Answer 14

A few dirty books on a special shelf over his bunk.

Question 15

Isolation

Answer 15

He kept his distance and demanded others kept theirs.

Question 16

Hardship

Answer 16

Pain-tightened lips

Question 17

Discrimination

Answer 17

‘Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger.’

Question 18

Discrimination

Answer 18

‘The boss gives him hell when he’s mad’.

Question 19

Isolation

Discrimination

Answer 19

A lean negro head, lined with pain, the eyes patient.